Open-source magnetic coil design
From target fieldto coil winding.
CoilGen turns a target magnetic field and a three-dimensional support surface into an optimized coil winding pattern.
Started at the University of Freiburg.
The research behind CoilGen
Built on open research.
CoilGen: Open-source MR coil layout generator ↗Philipp Amrein, Feng Jia, Maxim Zaitsev & Sebastian Littin.
Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 2022; 88:1465–1479.DOI: 10.1002/mrm.29294
Works citing CoilGen 25 works
19 journal articles · 2 book chapters · 1 doctoral thesis · 3 preprints.
Checked 11 October 2026 across OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar and OpenCitations, with publisher records checked where available. Earlier versions are grouped with published works; one preprint is provisionally grouped with its journal article. Citation indexes may miss some works. Bibliography data.
- A Reference System for Open Source Portable Low-Field MRI ↗
- An Open‐Source, Reproducible MRI Data Acquisition and Reconstruction Workflow Using Pulseq: Multi‐Site and Cross‐Vendor Validation ↗
- Bilateral breast gradient insert prototype for strong diffusion encoding at 3T ↗
- Design of a nonlinear double-breast single-axis gradient coil with controlled anterior–posterior gradient variation for diffusion-weighted imaging ↗
- Frequency Selective Surface (FSS) radiofrequency shield for low-field MRI ↗
- Open‐Source Multinuclear Low‐Field Preclinical MRI Scanner ↗
- Radial TRASE: 2D RF encoding through mechanical rotation and active digital decoupling ↗
- An imageless magnetic resonance framework for fast and cost-effective decision-making ↗
- Biological J‐Coupling Spectroscopy at Low Magnetic Field ↗
- Design method of transverse gradient coils based on nonuniform rational B‐spline (NURBS) curves ↗
- Easy scalable, low-cost open-source magnetic field detection system for evaluating low-field MRI magnets using a motion-tracked robot ↗
- Experience of how to build an MRI machine from scratch ↗
- Gradient coil design for a 0.23 T NICU MRI system using an improved two-step Target-Field Method with enhanced linearity and compact design ↗
- Magneto-mechanics in mechanobiology: enabling remote force transmission to cells and extracellular matrix ↗
- Mobile Magnetic Resonance of Plants: Towards Practical Day-to-day Use ↗
- MRI4ALL: A Week‐Long Hackathon for the Development of an Open‐Source Ultra‐Low‐Field MRI System ↗
- NMR of Roots in Soil Grown in Field and Greenhouse Conditions ↗
- A novel method for highly linear gradient coil design based on stream function ↗
- Elliptical Halbach magnet and gradient modules for low‐field portable magnetic resonance imaging ↗
- Open‐source magnetic resonance imaging: Improving access, science, and education through global collaboration ↗
- PulPy: A Python Toolkit for MRI RF and Gradient Pulse Design ↗
- A plug-and-play gradient insert for fast and silent MRI ↗
- Imaging local diffusion in microstructures using NV-based pulsed field gradient NMR ↗
- Low‐field MRI: A report on the 2022 ISMRM workshop ↗
- Optimal bi-planar gradient coil configurations for diamond nitrogen-vacancy based diffusion-weighted NMR experiments ↗