Open Source Imaging & Open Source Standard Hardware (WHY2025)

We developed an open-source low-field MRI and got the clinical certification started! The aim is to create a reference technology for healthcare – which comes with its own complex questions. The Open Source Imaging Initiative has developed an open-source low-field MRI – and is now working on the clinical certification for it (+will open-source it as far as legally possible)! This started raising some discussions around the costs and patenting-schemes in public healthcare. But what about the rest of the public infrastructure? And who keeps control of what? This talk will give an overview of the current state of the project, a bit of historic context (how could this happen??) and will explore the current discussions around governance and property models – and the idea of Open-Source Standard Hardware Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ about this event: https://program.why2025.org/why2025/talk/T9JW9Z/