Design, Construction, and Performance of a Large-Volume Magnetic Shield

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1982, Pages 260-270

  Kelhä, Vainö O ^a   Pukki, Jussi M ^a   Peltonen, Risto S ^a   Penttinen, Auvo J ^b   Ilmoniemi, Risto J ^b   Heino, Jarmo J ^b  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC SHIELDING;

EID: 0019899970     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: 19410069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.1982.1061780     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. B. J. Patton and J. L. Fitch, “Design of a room-size magnetic shield,” J. Geophys. Res., vol. 67, pp. 1117-1121, 1962.
2. B. J. Patton, “Magnetic shielding,” in D. W. Collinson, K. M. Creer, and S. K. Runcorn, Methods in Paleomagnetism. New York: Elsevier, 1967, pp. 568-588.
3. D. Cohen, “A shielded facility for low-level magnetic measurements,” J. Appl. Phys., vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 1295-1296, 1967.
4. D. Cohen, “Large-volume conventional magnetic shields,” Rev. Phys. Appl., vol. 5, pp. 53-58, 1970.
5. A. Mager, “Grossräumige Magnetische Abschirmungen,” J. Magn. Magn. Mat., vol. 2, pp. 245-255, 1976.
6. P. Lequain, J. A. Berkhout, and J. Schouten, “Design and construction at ESTEC of a magnetically shielded enclosure for VLF,” ESA TN-125, pp. 1-32, Jan. 1977.
7. V. Kelhä, “Construction and performance of the Otaniemi magnetically shielded room,” presented at IC SQUID/3rd Workshop on Biomagnetism, Berlin, West Germany, Mar. 6-9, 1980.
8. S. N. Erne, H. D. Hahlbohm, H. Scheer, and Z. Trontelj, “The Berlin magnetically shielded room (BMSR),” presented at IC SQUID/3rd Workshop on Biomagnetism, Berlin, West Germany, Mar. 6-9, 1980.
9. J. E. Zimmerman, “SQUID instruments and shielding for low-level magnetic measurements,” J. Appl. Phys., vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 702-710, 1977.
10. D. Cohen, “Ferromagnetic contamination in the lungs and other organs of the human body,” Science, vol. 180, p. 745, 1973.
11. D. Cohen, “Measurements of the magnetic fields produced by the human heart, brain, and lungs,” IEEE Trans. Magn., vol. MAG-11, no. 2, pp. 694-700, 1975.
12. D. Cohen, “Report of the low-field group: The magnetic field of the lung,” MIT/FBNML-78/1, p. 268, 1978.
13. K. Kalliomäki, P. L. Kalliomäki, V. Kelhä, and V. Vaaranen, “Instrumentation for measuring the magnetic lung contamination of steel welders,” Ann. Occup. Hyg., vol. 23, pp. 175-184, 1980.
14. S. J. Williamson and L. Kaufman, “Magnetic fields of the human brain,” J. Magn. Magn. Mat., vol. 15-18, p. 1548, 1979.
15. F. Schweizer, “Magnetic shielding factors of a system of concentric spherical shells,” J. Appl. Phys., vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 1001-1003, 1962.
16. H. Kaden, Wirbelströme und Schirmung in der Nachrichtentechnik. 2nd Ed. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1959.
17. D. Cohen, “Enhancement of ferromagnetic shielding against low-frequency magnetic fields,” Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 67-69, 1967.
18. V. Kelhä, R. Peltonen, and B. Rantala, “The effect of shaking on magnetic shields,” IEEE Trans. Magn., vol. MAG-16, no. 4, pp. 575-578, July 1980.
19. M. S. Freedman, F. Wagner, Jr., F. T. Porter, and P. Day, “Large volume degausser with gradient compensation,” J. Appl. Phys., vol. 38, pp. 1856-1862, 1967.
20. H. Kaden, “Shielding effect on thin-walled metal cylinders of square cross section,” Siemens Forsch. Entwickl., vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 76-84, 1976.
21. H. Kaden, “Die Schirmwirkung gestreckter Hohlellipsoide gegen quergerichtete magnetische Gleichfelder,” Z. Angew. Physik., vol. 30, no. 2/3, pp. 179-184, 1970.
22. H. Kaden, “Die magnetostatische Schirmwirkung dünnwandiger, gestreckter Rotationsellipsoide,” Frequenz, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 109-113, 1969.
23. A. Mager, “Magnetostatische Abschirmfaktoren von Zylindern mit rechteckigen Querschnittsformen,” Physica, vol. 80B, pp. 451-463, 1975.
24. A. Mager, “Das Eindringen von Magnetfeldern in offene Abschirmzylinder,” Z. Angew. Physik., vol. 23, no. 6, pp. 381-386, 1967.
25. A. Mager, “Magnetic shields,” IEEE Trans. Magn., vol. MAG-6, no. 1, pp. 67-75, Mar. 1970.
26. A. Mager, “Der magnetostatische Längenabschirmfaktor von zylinderförmingen Abschirmungen,” ETZ-A., vol. 89, no. 1, pp. 11-14, 1968.
27. A. L. Aden and M. Kerker, “Scattering of electromagnetic waves, from two concentric spheres,” J. Appl. Phys., vol. 22, no. 10, pp. 1242-1246, 1951.
28. R. M. Bozorth, Ferromagnetism. Princeton, NJ: Van Nostrand, 1968.
29. V. Kelhä and M. Nieminen, “On the construction of magnetically shielded room, calculation of the shielding factor,” Tech. Res. Centre of Finland, Instrum. Lab., Note No. 5, 1977 (in Finnish).
30. H. Kaden, “Die Ausbreitung elektrischer und magnetischer Wechselfelder in offenen Abschirmrohren,” Frequenz, vol. 24, pp. 27-32, 1970.
31. A. Mager, “Untersuchungen uber magnetische Schirmung,” pp. 94-149, in “Entwicklung von weichmagnetischen Legierungen mit besonderen Eigenschaften,” Tech. Rep. BMFT-FB T79-32, FIZ Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, 1979.
32. G. Ehnholm. T. Wiik, and T. Stubb, “Thin film SQUIDs for Magnetic Field Measurements,” in Proc. 8th Conf. Solid-State Devices, Tokyo, Japan, 1976.