Only few days left! ISMRM 2021 is approaching with new fantastic Open Source Soft- and Hardware content. An important milestone was reached this year and we are entering the next stage on the road towards an Open Source MRI in the clinic.

If you would like to get updated on the current progress, future steps and vision of our Open Source Imaging Initiative (OSI²), please have a look at this presentation at the virtual conference of the European Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ESMRMB).

The ISMRM study group for MR Engineering launched a new challenge to develop, demonstrate and share a tool for cleaning and sanitizing an MRI scanner protecting the next patient and workers. Develop quick, easy, cost effective and safe to use solutions.

Interested in MR hardware across field strengths? Then join the 1,5 hour long ISMRM virtual meeting of the MR Engineering study group on

Thursday, 4th of June 2020 at 8:00 am (US-PDT)
Register here (for ISMRM members): https://www.ismrm.org/virtual-meetings/

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Here is a collection of open projects to help fighting the current COVID-19 situation. List of respiratory open hardware projects: https://sites.google.com/view/coronavirus-openkit/open-hardware List of online activities to co-create solutions: https://sites.google.com/view/coronavirus-openkit/hackathons

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Recently the open hardware observatory (OHO) was launched. OHO is a search engine for sustainable open hardware, open design and maker projects crawling the web and making its open contents searchable for you. Start searching and build a better tomorrow.

Open access publishing, open data, and open source software are becoming the norm in academia. Is open hardware next? The University of Bath Open Source Hardware Group invites you to a 3-day incubator to explore the challenges faced when making open hardware, and work together to propose solutions.

After a successful program last year OpenMR Benelux is returning in 2020. It will be held from the 21-23rd of January at the Donders Institute for Cognition, Brain and Behaviour in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. The 3 day event will feature discussions on the open source movement in MRI and a two day…

The open source movement continues spreading and arrives at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Standards Association. In case you are not familiar with IEEE, it is the world’s largest professional association advancing technology for humanity. In the words of Joshua…

After a productive brainstorming and hacking session at the MRathon (hackathon for MR professionals) in Montreal, Canada, we finally launched our Wiki!
Now its up to you, the community to contribute to the wiki and create an open source knowledge base around MR research and development. Open…

On 17th of April we started our kick-off meeting on a DIN SPEC standard and guideline on Open Source Hardware. The consortium consist of many international experts developing, researching and selling open source hardware and open source software. The final documents, consisting of a standard and guideline,…

The ISMRM Reproducible Research Study Group would like to find out what the ISMRM Membership thinks about problems related to reproducibility – and what the study group might be able to do to improve things.
The Questionnaire has 5 sections – and should only take around 5-10 mins to complete…

The ISMRM study group for reproducible research just launched the 2019 reproduce a seminal paper initiative. The goal of this initiative is to select seminal papers from the field of magnetic resonance, and ask the community to reproduce the core findings/algorithms/implementations from these papers.

Time for a hackathon to promote reproducibility, collaboration, and standards through open source practices in magnetic resonance. The MR Hackathon (MRathon) that we are co-organizing is scheduled for May 9-10 2019 at the Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Montreal, Canada. Right before the annual meeting…

Happy old year! We are happy to announce that we acquired a first image in October this year with our open source Desktop MR system. We packed our magnet into the car in Berlin, drove down some 800km to LUMC in Leiden Netherlands, did a bit of magic and voila. This is a great success and it was a…

An interesting call for proposals (organized by Miki Lustig, Larry Wald and Tony Stoecker) has been launched that addresses open source software developers of sequence design, simulation and image reconstruction software to present and demonstrate their tools at the ISMRM 2019 in Montreal, Canada.…

Any good ideas to meet three important MR challenges from Africa, India and South America? We are happy to announce that the call for ideas is open and the best ideas will be presented at the ISMRM 2019 in Monreal, Canada. Moreover you will get a chance to work in teams to realize your ideas. You…

Let’s have some food and drinks together in Barcelona.

Dr. Nikola Stikov, founder of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, visited Stanford University last week and spoke on the topic of modern science communication with the goal of communicating science to a broader audience using blogging.

A petition has been started by Michael Hansen (NIH, Bethesda, US) and others working on Open Source Software in the MR community to create an ISMRM study group on reproducible research. We talked to Michael and once the study group is formed Open Source Hardware will be included as well. So please…

We have already 15 projects uploaded!

What can you do with the last five uploads? Well, e.g. you can reconstruct your images using BART or Gagdetron, convert them to the open data format ISMRMRD in order to share your data with your collaborators, who can use the result for simple image registration…

Flower pots that generate energy, polygon evolution, experiencing quantum mechanics in virtual reality and many more fun projects at the Science Hack Day Berlin. The idea of the Science Hack Day: Connecting the scientific and maker community for 24 hours and see what happens. Brilliant, just imagine…

Many crucial medical devices are beyond the reach of patients throughout the world. We believe that an open source approach to medical hardware design will engage communities of developers and produce simple, practical and innovative instruments. Local development, customized production and global…

Our interview for MDC insights the online news platform of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC) got published. Many thanks to Russ Hodge for the interview and Martin Ballaschk for editing. Can we as a community globalize medical imaging?

Research in Europe is opening up. Based on a recent report of the Council of the European Union, all publicly funded research shall be freely available (open access) to the public from 2020 [1]. Licensing models shall be promoted, such as creative commons for scientific publications and research data…

We are happy to announce that Open Source Imaging has been identified as an “impressive change agent” by the Shuttleworth Foundation and awarded us with a Flash Grant. The Shuttleworth Foundation supports social innovators for an open knowledge society.
Thumbs up for the Shuttleworth…

Happy Birthday Paul Lauterbur! As a birthday gift, we have launched OpenSourceImaging.org on 6th of May 2016. Few days later the open source imaging initiative (OSI²) [1] has been successfully presented at the 24th annual meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM)…

The Open Source Imaging Initiative (OSI²) represents a new approach to the development of medical imaging devices, aiming to make the health-care benefits of modern instruments accessible to many more people around the globe. The project will pool the knowledge and experience of many experts in open-source…