In this paper the analytical expressions for the magnetic field H and induction B in iron-pole plates generated by MRI gradient coil are given using line-current and the multilayer dielectric plate model with the mirror-image method.Eddy current emanates from the magnetic flux in the iron-pole plates.In order to fully suppress the eddy current,this magnetic flux should be fully eliminated.The research results indicate the magnetic permeability of the resist-eddy plate must be bigger than that of magnetic pole material,i.e.pure iron,and that the resist-eddy plate should be thick enough to be far away from its magnetic saturation.
ZU DongLin,HONG LiMing,CAO XueMing & TANG Xin Institute of Heavy Ion Physics,Beijing City Key Laboratory of Medical Physics and Engineering,School of Physics,Peking University,Beijing 100871,China
This paper presents an approach of active ferromagnetic shimming for C-type permanent magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) magnet.It is designed to reduce inhomogeneity of magnetostatic field of C-type permanent magnet to meet the stringent requirement for MRI applications.An optimal configuration (locations and thicknesses) of active ferromagnetic pieces is generated through calculation according to the initial field map and the demanded final homogeneity specifications.This approach uses a minimisation technique which makes the sum of squared magnetic moment minimum to restrict the amount of the active ferromagnetic material used and the maximal thickness of pieces stacked at each hole location in the shimming boards.Simulation and experimental results verify that the method is valid and efficient.
In this paper, a low-noise preamplifier for MRI is designed and studied. A noise matching network consisting of three elements is presented. To the single-stage AsGa-FET preamplifier working at 128 MHz, the measured gain through network analyzer (HP8712C) and noise figure through noise figure analyzer (8970B) are 25 and 0.43 dB, respectively.
CAO XueMing ZU DongLin ZHAO XuNa FAN Yang GAO JiaHong
For a superconducting magnet of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), the novel approach presented in this paper allows the design of cylindrical gradient and shim coils of finite length. The method is based on identification of the weighting of harmonic components in the current distribution that will generate a magnetic field whose z-component follows a chosen spherical harmonic function. Mathematical expressions which relate the harmonic terms in the cylindrical current distribution to spherical harmonic terms in the field expansion are established. Thus a simple matrix inversion approach can be used to design a shim coil of any order pure harmonic. The expressions providing a spherical harmonic decomposition of the field components produced by a particular cylindrical current distribution are novel. A stream function was applied to obtain the discrete wire distribution on the cylindrical-surface. This method does not require the setting of the target-field points. The discussion referring to matrix equations in terms of condition numbers proves that this novel approach has no ill-conditioned problems. The results also indicate that it can be used to design cylindrical-surface shim coils of finite length that will generate a field variation which follows a particular spherical harmonic over a reasonably large-sized volume.
