Designing gradient coils with reduced hot spot temperatures

Journal of Magnetic Resonance

Volumn 203, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 91-99

  While, Peter T ^a   Forbes, Larry K ^a   Crozier, Stuart ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cooling; Gradient coil design; Heating; Hot spot; Inverse method; Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Non linear; Optimisation; Temperature; Thermal

Indexed keywords

GRADIENT COIL; GRADIENT COIL DESIGN; HOT SPOT; INVERSE METHOD; INVERSE METHODS; NON-LINEAR; OPTIMISATION; OPTIMISATIONS;

COOLING; DESIGN; GLASS INDUSTRY; HEATING; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSFORMER WINDINGS;

WINDING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEAT; INSTRUMENTATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HOT TEMPERATURE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 75749146967     PISSN: 10907807     EISSN: 10960856     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2009.12.004     Document Type: Article

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