Designing static fields for unilateral magnetic resonance by a scalar potential approach

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1903-1911

  Marble, Andrew E ^a   Mastikhin, Igor V ^a   Colpitts, Bruce G ^a   Balcom, Bruce J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Magnetic resonance; Scalar potential; Static magnetic fields; Unilateral magnetic resonance

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LAPLACE EQUATION; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE MEASUREMENT; OPTIMIZATION;

CYLINDRICAL MAGNETS; SCALAR POTENTIAL; SPHERICAL COORDINATES; STATIC MAGNETIC FIELDS;

PERMANENT MAGNETS;

EID: 34247383981     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2006.889538     Document Type: Article

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