At the very beginning of my journey into the field of NMR/MRI, I learnt about something exciting: MRI systems can be programmed to produce music. Last week I realised that, with an MRI system sitting on my bench and a pulse sequence program open on my PC, there was actually nothing stopping me from turning my own imaging system into a whimsical musical instrument.

Help! I put a cool sample into my ilumr MRI system and hit run on one of the dashboards, but the image isn't looking as amazing as I had hoped. Where do I go from here? How do I improve my MR image?

With its short RF pulse lengths and fast recovery time, ilumr is a great tool for relaxometry.