Abstract:

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)，as a non-invasive diagnosis method, has been widely used in many fields. However, students may have no chance to per form MRI experiments on commercial scanners, mainly due to the cost. In order to overcome this problem, we have constructed a bench-top MRI system in our labor a tory for teaching purposes. Detailed discussion about the system design is given  in this paper, including both hardware and software. The performance and reliab ility of our homebuilt bench-top MRI system were verified with some conventional MRI experiments. The results indicate that the system we designed can be used for educational applications.

Key words: MRI, system, develop