TY - JOUR
AU1 - Xuan, Liang
AU2 - Xu, Zheng
AB - Gradient coils designed by conventional target field methods usually have a complex physical structure and these methods are not convergent for complex routing area problems. This study aims to design a multi-coil (MC) gradient system arranged on a complex routing area including two cylindrical surfaces with different radii for a head magnetic resonance imaging scanner.Design/methodology/approachA MC system model is established. In this model, the sub-coils are evenly distributed on two cylindrical wiring surfaces, and the radii of coils are the same on one cylindrical surface. With the target magnetic field set, the currents in every individual coil are solved by constrained least-squares fitting based on the Levenberg–Marquardt method.FindingsThe magnetic field nonlinearity generated by designed coils is validated as 4.50% and 3.57% for X-gradient coil and Z-gradient coil, respectively, which satisfy the mainstream nonlinearity standards. The analysis of the optimization results indicates that hardware requirements can be considerably reduced by connecting coils with the same currents in series.Originality/valueHigh-linearity gradient magnetic fields are generated on complex routing areas by adopting the MC structure. In addition, the requirements for current sources and amplifiers are considerably reduced.
TI - Multi-coil design for a coaxial double-cylinder head MRI scanner
JF - COMPEL: The International Journal for Computation and Mathematics in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
DO - 10.1108/compel-01-2022-0044
DA - 2023-01-12
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/emerald-publishing/multi-coil-design-for-a-coaxial-double-cylinder-head-mri-scanner-rkJ0NG7eb3
SP - 112
EP - 120
VL - 42
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -