Medical devices play a vital role in disease detection and therapy follow-up and are commonly used in the western world. Often these devices are so costly that hospitals in developing countries cannot  afford them. With this project the researchers aim to develop a simple and inexpensive MRI scanner.
Normal MRI scanners work with expensive superconducting magnets with a very high magnetic field strength. Because of this, the detected signal is of high quality, and standard mathematical techniques are sufficient to create a clear image.

To reduce the cost of the simple MRI scanner the researchers work with permanent magnets with a much lower field strength. The hardware is therefore greatly simplified, but on the other hand the image reconstruction becomes mathematically much more challenging, and this is what makes this project unique. The magnetic field can vary over time , and the signal is also much more noisy. This research focuses on advanced mathematical methods to reconstruct an accurate image from such signals.