Shim coil design for Halbach magnet by equivalent magnetic dipole method

Low-field nuclear magnetic resonance magnet（2 MHz） is required for rock core analysis. However, due to its low field strength, it is hard to achieve a high uniform B0 field only by using the passive shimming. Therefore, active shimming is necessarily used to further improve uniformity for Halbach magnet. In this work, an equivalent magnetic dipole method is presented for designing shim coils. The minimization of the coil power dissipation is considered as an optimal object to minimize coil heating effect, and the deviation from the target field is selected as a penalty function term. The lsqnonlin optimization toolbox of MATLAB is used to solve the optimization problem. Eight shim coils are obtained in accordance with the contour of the stream function. We simulate each shim coil by ANSYS Maxwell software to verify the validity of the designed coils. Measurement results of the field distribution of these coils are consistent with those of the target fields.The uniformity of the B0 field is improved from 114.2 ppm to 26.9 ppm after using these shim coils.

Equivalent magnetic dipole method used to design gradient coil for unilateral magnetic resonance imaging

The conventional magnetic resonance imaging(MRI)equipment cannot measure large volume samples nondestructively in the engineering site for its heavy weight and closed structure.In order to realize the mobile MRI,this study focuses on the design of gradient coil of unilateral magnet.The unilateral MRI system is used to image the local area above the magnet.The current density distribution of the gradient coil cannot be used as a series of superconducting nuclear magnetic resonance gradient coils,because the region of interest(ROI)and the wiring area of the unilateral magnet are both cylindrical side arc surfaces.Therefore,the equivalent magnetic dipole method is used to design the gradient coil,and the algorithm is improved for the special case of the wiring area and the ROI,so the X and Y gradient coils are designed.Finally,a flexible printed circuit board(PCB)is used to fabricate the gradient coil,and the magnetic field distribution of the ROI is measured by a Gauss meter,and the measured results match with the simulation results.The gradient linearities of x and y coils are 2.82%and 3.56%,respectively,less than 5%of the commercial gradient coil requirement.