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August 14, 2025
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Experience of how to build an MRI machine from scratch

Publicated to: PROGRESS IN NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY. 150 101574- - 2025-12-01 150(), DOI: 10.1016/j.pnmrs.2025.101574

Authors:

Huang, SY; Algarín, JM; Alonso, J; Anieyrudh, R; Borreguero, J; Bschorr, F; Cassidy, P; Choo, WM; Corcos, D; Guallart-Naval, T; Han, HJ; Igwe, KC; Kang, JC; Li, J; Littin, S; Liu, J; Rodriguez, GG; Solomon, E; Tan, LK; Tian, R; Webb, A; Weber, S; Xiao, D; Xu, MX; Yu, WW; Zhang, ZY; Zinghini, I; Blümich, B
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Affiliations

Agile MRI ltd, Tel Aviv, Israel - Author
ASTAR, Inst Mol & Cell Biol, Singapore, Singapore - Author
Chiba Univ, Ctr Frontier Med Engn, Chiba, Japan - Author
Columbia Univ, Dept Biomed Engn, New York, NY USA - Author
Jiangsu LiCi Med Device Co Ltd, Changzhou, Peoples R China - Author
Leiden Univ, Leids Univ Med Centrum, Leiden, Netherlands - Author
Max Planck Inst Biol Cybernet, High Field MR Ctr, Tubingen, Germany - Author
Max Planck Inst Multidisciplinary Sci, Gottingen, Germany - Author
Natl Univ Singapore, Coll Design & Engn, Dept Elect & Comp Engn, Singapore, Singapore - Author
NingBo ChuanShanJia Elect & Mech Co Ltd, Ningbo, Peoples R China - Author
Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Inst Tech & Makromol Chem, Aachen, Germany - Author
Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ, Sch Biomed Engn, Shanghai, Peoples R China - Author
Singapore Univ Technol & Design, Engn Prod Dev, Singapore, Singapore - Author
Singapore Univ Technol & Design, Singapore, Singapore - Author
Spanish Natl Res Council, Inst Instrumentac Imagen Mol, Valencia, Spain - Author
Technion Israel Inst Technol, Biomed Engn, Haifa, Israel - Author
Univ Freiburg, Univ Med Ctr Freiburg, Fac Med, Dept Diagnost & Intervent Radiol,Div Med Phys, Freiburg, Germany - Author
Univ Malaya, Fac Med, Dept Biomed Imaging, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - Author
Univ Politecn Valencia, Valencia, Spain - Author
Univ Ulm, Dept Internal Med 2, Med Ctr, Ulm, Germany - Author
Univ Windsor, Dept Phys, Windsor, ON, Canada - Author
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Abstract

Nuclear magnetic resonance instruments are becoming available to the do-it-yourself community, and there is increasing interest in the practical aspects of building a magnetic resonance imaging instrument from scratch. This review is focused on the different steps involved in such an endeavour, the challenges encountered and their solutions; it is based on experience gained at a four-day "hackathon" (named "ezyMRI") at Singapore University of Technology and Design in spring 2024. One day of this event was devoted to educational lectures and three days to system construction and testing; seventy young researchers from all parts of the world formed six teams focusing respectively on magnet, gradient coil, RF coil, console, system integration, and design, which together produced a working MRI instrument in three days.
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Keywords

ConstructionDiyEzymrFieldGradient coil designHackathonLow-field mriNmrPermanent-magnetsSensoTo-noise ratio

Quality index

Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal PROGRESS IN NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2025, it was in position 1/44, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Spectroscopy.

Independientemente del impacto esperado determinado por el canal de difusión, es importante destacar el impacto real observado de la propia aportación.

Según las diferentes agencias de indexación, el número de citas acumuladas por esta publicación hasta la fecha 2026-04-02:

  • WoS: 1
  • Scopus: 2
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Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2026-04-02:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 11.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 11 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 3.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 5 (Altmetric).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.
  • Assignment of a Handle/URN as an identifier within the deposit in the Institutional Repository: http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0012-4B45-B
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Leadership analysis of institutional authors

This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: Canada; China; Germany; Israel; Japan; Malaysia; Netherlands; Singapore; United States of America.

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Project objectives

Los objetivos perseguidos en esta aportación se centran en analizar los pasos necesarios para construir un equipo de resonancia magnética desde cero, evaluar los desafíos prácticos encontrados durante el proceso y las soluciones aplicadas, caracterizar la experiencia obtenida en un evento de cuatro días denominado "ezyMRI" celebrado en la primavera de 2024 en la Singapore University of Technology and Design, describir la organización y el trabajo colaborativo de setenta jóvenes investigadores distribuidos en seis equipos especializados, y determinar la viabilidad de producir un instrumento funcional de resonancia magnética en un plazo de tres días.
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Most relevant results

El estudio presenta una experiencia práctica sobre la construcción de un equipo de resonancia magnética nuclear (MRI) desde cero, desarrollada durante un hackathon de cuatro días en la Universidad de Tecnología y Diseño de Singapur en primavera de 2024. Los resultados más relevantes incluyen: la formación de seis equipos especializados en magneto, bobina de gradiente, bobina de RF, consola, integración del sistema y diseño; la producción exitosa de un instrumento MRI funcional en tres días; la dedicación de un día a conferencias educativas para preparar a los participantes; y la participación de setenta jóvenes investigadores internacionales que colaboraron en el proyecto. Este enfoque permitió abordar y superar diversos retos técnicos en la construcción del sistema MRI.
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Awards linked to the item

Andrew Webb is funded by the ERC Advanced Grant PASMAR and Rui Tian is funded by the ERC Advanced Grant (No. 834940) . The following teams and individuals collaborated in the ezyMRI hackathon: Console team: Mentor Joseba Alonso. Members Dan Xiao, Eddy Solomon, Gabriel Zihlmann, Huseyin Enes Candan, Irena Zivkovic, Jose Borre-guero Morata, Jules Vliem, Li Kuo Tan, Steven Winata, Teresa Guallart Naval, Xinyu Ma, Yiju Guo, Yonatan Urman. Design team Mentor: Jacob Kang. Members: Can Xu, Qiongrou Ye, Ruiqi Jin, Sharada Balaji, Xiao-han Liu, Yiming Liu, Zhonghai Chi. Gradient team: Mentors Sebastian Littin, Maxim Zaitsev. Members Daniel Abraham, David Corcos, Jiahui Ding, Punith Bidarakka Venkategowda, Isabelle Zinghini, Lyanne Bude, Shah, Zachary, Yujun Ling, Yuwan Wang. Integration team Mentors Wenwei Yu, Jie Liu, Zhiyong Zhang, Andrew Webb. Members Fabian Bschorr, Kay Igwe, Rongxing Zhang, Xinxin Li, Yueqi Qiu. Magnet team: Mentor Wenwei Yu. Members Bhairav Mehta, Chang Sun, Gonzalo Rodriguez, Jaladhar Neelavalli, Mark Nishimura, Naoto, Fujita, Neale Wiley, Pohchoo Seow, Shengyuan Wu, Shiwei Yang, Victor Ramirez Olate, Tingou Liang. RF team: Mentors Joe Li, Paul Cassidy. Members Abel Worku Tessema, Anas Bachiri, Carlos Castillo Passi, Efrat Shimron, Hua Guo, Lachlan West, Minxuan Xu, Nayebare Maureen, Ronald Amodoi, Rui Tian, Ruian Qin, Sergey Korchak, Suen Chen, Tao Yun, Xiangzheng Kong, Yingyi Qi, Zhaoyang Hao, Ziye He, Ziyu Fu. Event facilitating team: Jing Han Heng, Junqi Yang, Anieyrudh R, Saumitra Kapoor, Christyasto Pambudi, Yifeng Jiang, Gan Bei Ru, Wong Jae Hann, Chia Pei Zhi, Tan Ying Yi, Stalin Thileepan, Wenjing Chu, Sok Yen Chong, Han Yat Siew, Eric Tan, Hilmi Yusoff. Support of the ezyMRI hackathon by Ngee Ann Kongsi (platinum sponsor) , United Imaging and RFSGTech (silver sponsors,) and Resonint (bronze sponsor) as well as the support of food on the seminar day by the IEEE Singapore Sector are gratefully acknowledged.
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