Electricity: magnetically operated switches – magnets – and electr – Magnets and electromagnets – Superconductive type
Patent
1997-03-10
2000-08-08
Donovan, Lincoln
Electricity: magnetically operated switches, magnets, and electr
Magnets and electromagnets
Superconductive type
335299, H01F 100
Patent
active
061007803
ABSTRACT:
An open magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) magnet having first and second spaced-apart superconductive coil assemblies each including a toroidal-shaped coil housing containing a superconductive main coil at least partially immersed in a cryogenic fluid such as liquid helium. A generally-non-permanently-magnetized ferromagnetic ring is associated with each coil assembly, being generally coaxially aligned with the associated coil assembly and being spaced radially inward and radially apart from the associated coil assembly's superconductive main coil. The ferromagnetic rings overcome the gross magnetic field distortions in the imaging volume of the superconductive main coils (created by the open space between the magnet's superconductive coil assemblies) to produce a magnetic field of high uniformity within the imaging volume.
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Dorri Bizhan
Havens Timothy John
Laskaris Evangelos Trifon
Ogle Michele Dollar
Donovan Lincoln
Erickson Douglas E.
General Electric Company
Snyder Marvin
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