Benchmarking the performance of a low‐cost magnetic resonance control system at multiple sites in the open MaRCoS community

@article{GuallartNaval2022BenchmarkingTP,
  title={Benchmarking the performance of a low‐cost magnetic resonance control system at multiple sites in the open MaRCoS community},
  author={Teresa Guallart-Naval and Thomas O’Reilly and Jose Miguel Algarin and Ruben Pellicer-Guridi and Yolanda Vives-Gilabert and Lincoln Craven-Brightman and Vlad Negnevitsky and Benjamin Menk{\"u}c and Fernando Galve and Jason P. Stockmann and Andrew G. Webb and Joseba Alonso},
  journal={NMR in Biomedicine},
  year={2022},
  volume={36}
}
Purpose: To describe the current properties and capabilities of an open‐source hardware and software package that is being developed by many sites internationally with the aim of providing an inexpensive yet flexible platform for low‐cost MRI. 
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