Homogeneous magnet design using linear programming

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 476-483

  Xu, Hao ^a   Conolly, Steven M ^a   Scott, Greig C ^a   Macovski, Albert ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; ELECTRIC COILS; GEOMETRY; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

GEOMETRIC CONSTRAINT; HOMOGENEOUS MAGNET; MAGNET DESIGN;

SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNETS;

EID: 0033872798     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.825817     Document Type: Article

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