Design of the Shimming Coils for MRI Magnet

MRI 마그네트용 보정코일 설계

  • 배준한 (한국전기연구원 초전도응용연구그룹) ;
  • 고락길 (한국전기연구원 초전도응용연구그룹 연구원) ;
  • 진홍범 (한국전기연구원 초전도응용연구그룹) ;
  • 심기덕 (한국전기연구원 초전도응용연구그룹 연구원) ;
  • 권영길 (한국전기연구원 초전도응용연구그룹 그룹장) ;
  • 류강식 (차세대 초전도응용기술개발 사업단장)
  • Published : 2001.12.01

Abstract

This paper describes the general and efficient design method of an axial and a radial shim coils to correct field impurities of various harmonic orders in the imaging volume of Magnetic Resonance Imaging magnet. Shim coils are optimized by BCLSF subroutine of IMSL, which is the well-known commercial package for optimization, aiming at maximizing the magnitude of the desired field component as well as minimizing other field components. In order to evaluate their effect, the developed method was applied to the MRI magnet constructed in KERI.

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