Synopsis

MRI systems are expensive to purchase, site, maintain and operate. This results in MRI playing a limited and last-stage role in healthcare in the developed world, and being essentially unavailable in the majority of developing countries. Lower total costs could change its fundamental role in healthcare, e.g. enabling MRI screening, portability increase the number of potential applications, and finally lower costs and more flexible designs enable systems which are application-specific, rather than one-size-fits-all, to be produced. This talk will discuss the design and performance of systems based on permanent magnets, with low-cost electronics and 3D printed components.