Active ferromagnetic shimming of the permanent magnet for magnetic resonance imaging scanner

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.     

含温度载荷的管板变形的解析解

根据换热器结构形式建立了用于计算管板变形的力学模型,参考ASMEⅧ-1计算管板的有效弹性常数,并将外筒和换热管束分别等效为会因温度和压力载荷产生轴向变形的弹簧和弹性基础.应用Ritz法建立了管板挠度的解析解,将该解析解与三个不同规模换热器的有限元分析结果进行对比.结果表明,建立的解析解与有限元分析结果吻合良好,验证了推导的管板变形解析解的正确性.研究结果对固定管板式换热器的设计有较大的指导意义.     

A novel approach to designing cylindrical-surface shimcoils for a superconducting magnet of magnetic resonance imaging

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.