MAGNUS is a coordinated project formed by two subprojects:

• MAGNUS-Treat focuses on the development of a new low-cost, patient-customized technology, based on the use of holographic lenses, to improve and extend the use of current ultrasound therapy systems for the treatment of neurological disorders. Acoustic holograms make it possible to control the quality of the ultrasonic beam, directing it and adapting the shape of the focus to that of the brain structures of therapeutic interest, while correcting the aberrations introduced by the skull.
  Subproject 1 will be implemented by UMIL (Ultrasound Medical and Industrial Laboratory), a team of UPV professors and researchers, experts on therapeutic ultrasound and acoustic holograms.
• MAGNUS-View will develop the first truly portable, low-cost MRI head scanner, which can:
  1. Produce diagnostic quality images of both soft and hard biological tissues, including the skull, to design holographic lenses tailored to the patient’s anatomy
  2. Guide the precise positioning of an ultrasound probe in real time based on fast localizer sequences
  3. Monitor therapeutic ultrasound treatments through tissue temperature maps.

Subproject 2 will be implemented by the MRILab (Magnetic Resonance Imaging Laboratory), a team of CSIC researchers formed by experts on the development of low-field magnetic resonance imaging techniques.

Grant PID2022-142719OB-C22 funded by MCIN/AEI/ 10.13039/501100011033 and, as appropriate, by “ERDF A way of making Europe”, by the “European Union” or by the “European Union NextGenerationEU/PRTR”.