Public Multi-Coil Information (PUMCIN) Policy - Multi-Coil Wire Patterns

Knowledge on conventional MRI gradient technology is concentrated within a few academic and industrial sites and only a fraction of it is available to the scientific community and the public. Multi-coil magnetic field control introduced by our lab and collaborators at Yale University has emerged as a viable alternative to conventional gradient technology, and an active scientific community is forming. We recently proposed the full disclosure of new hardware designs in scientific reports (found in Juchem C, de Graaf RA: The public multi-coil information (PUMCIN) policy. Magn Reson Med. 2016 Dec 1; 2016 Dec 1. PMID: 27905145) as voluntary commitment to promoting free public access. Setting an example ourselves, we make all our designs available, in an attempt to establish the PUMCIN policy as the way multi-coil engineering innovation is reported in the future, maximizing the benefits for science and society.

1) Introduction of multi-coil concept for magnetic field control

2) 24-channel multi-coil wire pattern for B0 field control in the mouse brain

3) 48-channel multi-coil wire pattern for B0 field control in the rat brain

4) 48-channel multi-coil wire pattern for B0 field control in the human brain

5) 48-channel multi-coil wire pattern for theoretical performance analysis of multi-coil field control brain