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A4IM OSI² TR-Switch

Hello OCRA, Tabletop and OSI² community, In this blog post I want to share my Transmit-Receive (TR) switch design for the OSI² 2MHz Halbach MRI as part of the A4IM project. The A4IM OSI² TR-Switch is based on my OCRA Tabletop MRI System TR-Switch. The schematic is basically the same and only a few components…

07 Nov

Power supply of the OCRA console

Hello OCRA and Tabletop community, In this blog post I want to share our console power supply for the OCRA Tabletop MRI System. The console is driven by a Mean Well RT-50C switching mode power supply with a universal 110/230V AC input and +15V, -15 and +5V DC outputs. To connect the power supply to…

26 Apr

Gradient Coils for the OCRA Tabletop MRI System

Hello OCRA and Tabletop community, In this blog post I want to share our gradient coil design for the OCRA Tabletop MRI System. Gradients fields are necessary to encode spatial information to the spin signal. As the origin of the spin signal is the homogeneous magnetic field (B0) it is possible to variate this field…

08 Mar

Relax2.0, a graphical user interface for OCRA

Hello OCRA and Tabletop community, In this blog post, I will share the news about the first GitHub publication of my Relax2.0 graphical user interface (GUI) for OCRA. Relax2.0 is based on the original OCRA server for the Red Pitaya by Thomas Witzel and the PyQt GUI Relax by David Schote. Relax2.0 can be downloaded…

18 May

Testing the transmit and receive functionality of the OCRA Tabletop MRI System

Hello OCRA and Tabletop community, In this blog I will guide you on how to test the RF functionality of the OCRA Tabletop MRI System. We will test the functionality for receiving RF spin signals (RX) and transmiting RF pulses (TX). For the tests you need a pickup loop coil. The coil can be build…

18 Apr

RF-Coil for the OCRA Tabletop MRI system

Hello OCRA and Tabletop community, In this short blog I will share my radiofrequency (RF) -coil design for our OCRA Tabletop MRI system. The coil is a simple solenoid design. To make it sensitive to the measurement (Larmor) frequency it is built as an electrical resonator with parallel capacitance. To match its impedance to a…