TESLA DYNAMIC COILS BV

Their core work

Tesla Dynamic Coils BV is a Dutch SME that designs and manufactures RF coils and antenna systems for MRI scanners — their company name is a direct description of their product. They operate at the hardware layer of medical imaging, building the physical components that determine MRI signal quality, field strength compatibility, and imaging capability. In EU research projects, they contribute as a technology provider, supplying custom coil hardware to academic and clinical consortia working on next-generation MRI applications. Their involvement spans both ultra-high field MRI antenna development (metamaterial-based) and body-wide chemistry imaging systems, indicating they serve the frontier segment of MRI hardware where commercial off-the-shelf coils are insufficient.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Their first project, M-CUBE, focused purely on the physics and engineering of MRI hardware — metamaterial antenna design for ultra-high field scanners, with no clinical application keywords. Their second and larger project, NICI, introduced a distinct application layer: metabolomics, 3D organoids, and gastrointestinal cancer detection, all enabled by chemistry-sensitive MRI. This shift suggests they are moving from pure hardware component supplier toward integrated imaging solutions aimed at specific clinical and biological research use cases. The trajectory is from "we build better coils" toward "we build coils that make specific difficult measurements possible."

They are moving up the value chain — from generic MRI hardware toward application-specific coil systems for clinical diagnostics and biological research, which opens collaboration opportunities in medical imaging, oncology, and life science instrumentation.

How they like to work

Tesla Dynamic Coils has participated in both projects as a consortium partner, never as coordinator, consistent with a specialist hardware supplier role — they provide a component others cannot easily source elsewhere. Their two projects involved consortia totalling 21 unique partners across 11 countries, suggesting they are comfortable operating in large, internationally distributed research teams. This profile — small SME, deep niche, always participant — points to a company that plugs into consortia as a technical enabler rather than an organizer, which makes them a low-friction partner to bring in when custom MRI hardware is needed.

With 21 unique consortium partners across 11 countries from just two projects, Tesla Dynamic Coils punches above its size in network reach. Their partnerships are spread across Europe, reflecting the international nature of the MRI physics and medical imaging research communities they serve.

What sets them apart

Tesla Dynamic Coils occupies a very narrow but strategically important niche: custom RF coil hardware for research-grade and ultra-high field MRI systems, a space where academic labs and imaging consortia cannot rely on commercial vendors like Siemens or Philips. As a small Dutch company with direct project experience at 7T+ field strengths and chemistry imaging, they offer bespoke hardware capability that most other SMEs in the Netherlands cannot replicate. For any consortium building around advanced MRI — whether for clinical translation, preclinical imaging, or spectroscopy — they are the rare industry partner that brings actual coil-manufacturing capability rather than system integration or software.

Highlights from their portfolio

• NICI
  Their largest project by far at EUR 761,352 (2018–2023), targeting whole-body non-invasive chemistry imaging with explicit links to metabolomics and gastrointestinal cancer — the clearest signal of their clinical imaging ambitions.
• M-CUBE
  Their entry into H2020 via a FET (Future and Emerging Technologies) project on metamaterial antennas for ultra-high field MRI signals a foundational physics-level expertise, not just applied engineering.