The downside is that neither our scanner nor the "donor" scanner can be used for now, the cooling unit simply does not have enough power.

A view into the technical room for an MRI scanner. Additional water tubes were added and are still lying on the floor.

The cooling control board of an MRI scanner, showing a temperature of 27.4°C.

Tonight the cooling system which supplies our #MRI scanner died.
Fortunately, facility management came and frankensteined our scanner onto the cooling circuit of another scanner - a procedure they had just come up with 2 weeks ago.
Disaster averted, now we have time to come up with a real solution.

FastPtx: a versatile toolbox for rapid, joint design of pTx RF and gradient pulses using Pytorch’s... Objective With modern optimization methods, free optimization of parallel transmit pulses together with their gradient waveforms can be performed on-line within a short time. A toolbox which uses PyTo...

I'm happy to announce that I was finally able to publish another part of my work. If you are into ultrahigh field MRI and are looking for code to optimize your pTx pulses, give this a try! I'm looking forward to feedback!