Interview
The Road to NYOX: Innovation, Challenges, and Lessons Learned
Driven by big ambitions and a small team, Skope completely re-engineered its field monitoring platform to create NYOX. In a 3-question interview, R&D’s Simon Gross and Samuel Sollberger discuss the key drivers behind the project, challenges they faced, and lessons they learned along the way.
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Introducing NYOX – One Platform for Field Monitoring
Discover NYOX – Skope’s new platform set to transform field monitoring practices. NYOX delivers unmatched connectivity, ease of use, and productivity and empowers our users to elevate their workflows and achieve new levels of efficiency.
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New Whitepaper
Learn about the technical architecture implemented in Skope’s latest innovation – the NYOX platform. The whitepaper details why the RF signal digitization occurs in the base unit and the main processing happens in the controller unit, while the high-speed interface between these two is done over the optical line using the standard JESD204B Subclass 1 protocol.
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NEUROQUANT Project Awarded Prestigious Grant
The project NEUROQUANT – Neurovascular MR coil powered by quantitative neuroimaging technologies for Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis, prognosis, and therapy monitoring, has been awarded a prestigious grant through a joint initiative from Innovate UK and Innosuisse – Swiss Innovation Agency. Skope is one of the project partners.
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NeuroCam™ 3T & 7T DICOM Viewer
Our new DICOM Viewer now includes images acquired with the NeuroCam 3T Excellence and the NeuroCam 7T Standard. Take a look at the latest images!
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I want to thank the Skope team for the fantastic collaboration throughout our project. I truly appreciated the ‘Swiss precision’ in defining the project and reliably delivering on promises made. Additionally, having the team show up on-site really gave the project an extra push, helping us meet critical milestones.
Professor Nikolaus Weiskopf, PhD
MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Being able to directly visualize the gradient moments made it easy to identify the error and fix the calculation in the pulse sequence.
Lars Mueller, PhD
University of Leeds
Oscillating gradient spin-echo (OGSE) diffusion acquisitions offer unique microstructural insight but suffer limited sensitivity due to the characteristically long TEs. This shortcoming can be mitigated by combining OGSE with spiral readouts…
Eric S. Michael
Institute for Biomedical Engineering, ETH Zurich
Having access to the raw trajectory data from the Skope system and libraries with which to read them allowed us to successfully develop our model-based reconstruction algorithm and generate high-fidelity images.
Paul Dubovan
Department of Medical Biophysics at Western University
Fast, non-Cartesian imaging is simpler than ever since we rely on the Dynamic Field Camera for system characterization and trajectory measurement. Real-time field monitoring with a Clip-on Camera has become a cornerstone of our 7T program.
Prof. Klaas P. Prüssmann, PhD
Institute for Biomedical Engineering, ETH Zurich
At the UMC Utrecht we have built up quite some experience with the 16-channel Skope system for monitoring B0 field fluctuations in the human body at high field. We strive to stabilize sensitive MRI and MRS/MRSI acquisitions by correcting the acquisition and reconstruction techniques for B0 instabilities caused by (involuntary) patient movement.
Prof. Dennis Klomp, PhD
UMC Utrecht
We are end-users of this technology who expect ease of use. Our installation was a seamless process during which both sales team and the MR experts at Skope were a pleasure to work with.
Zoltan Nagy, PhD
Laboratory for Social and Neural Systems Research - SNS Lab, University of Zurich
The Skope staff have always been really helpful in sorting out any issues that I faced as my project developed over the past 5 years. The field camera is a very friendly solution that gives room to personalize data acquisition thanks to the MatLab-package scanner interface.
Laura Bortolotti, PhD
University of Nottingham
Our Clip-on Camera has been invaluable to monitor field stability and fluctuations in MR thermometry. If thermal measurements are to remain non-invasive in vivo, it is impossible to obtain definite proof without in situ measurements.
Nicolas Boulant, PhD
NeuroSpin/CEA
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