True energy-minimal and finite-size biplanar gradient coil design for MRI

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 826-830

  Liu, Haiying ^a   Truwit, Charles L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite size coil; Interventional MRI; Magnetic energy minimization; Planar gradient coil

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTRIC CURRENT DISTRIBUTION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MEDICAL IMAGING; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

BIOT-SAVART LAW; MAGNETIC ENERGY MINIMIZATION; PLANAR GRADIENT COIL; STREAM FUNCTION TECHNIQUE;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ARTICLE; INSTRUMENTATION; MAGNETISM; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETICS;

EID: 0032173372     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.736052     Document Type: Article

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