Winding patterns for actively shielded shim coils with asymmetric target-fields

Measurement Science and Technology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 484-493

  Brideson, M A ^a   Forbes, L K ^a   Crozier, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Asymmetric systems; Fourier series; Magnetic resonance imaging; Shielding; Shim coil; Stream function; Target field

Indexed keywords

FOURIER TRANSFORMS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; WINDING;

SHIM COILS;

MEASUREMENT THEORY;

NUCLEAR APPLICATION;

EID: 0037388966     PISSN: 09570233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-0233/14/4/312     Document Type: Article

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