Gradient coil with cancelled net thrust force

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1994-09-09

1996-08-13

O'Shea, Sandra L.

Electricity: measuring and testing

Particle precession resonance

Spectrometer components

324322, G01V 300, G01V 314

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055459960

ABSTRACT:
Superconducting magnets (10) generate a temporally constant magnetic field through a bore (12). The bore, hence the superconducting magnets, have a length which is relatively short compared to its diameter, a length to diameter ratio of less than 1.0 to 1.5 and preferably 1:1. A gradient coil assembly (30) is disposed around the bore for generating gradient magnetic fields across the bore. With such a relatively short bore magnet, in the region in which the gradient field coil is disposed, the main magnetic field suffers non-uniformities including radial magnetic field components. When current pulses are fed through the windings of a primary gradient coil (32) and a secondary gradient coil (34), the currents interact in an unbalanced manner with the non-uniformities and radial components of the temporally constant magnetic field, causing a net force in axial and/or transverse directions. Additional windings (62, 72) are mounted adjacent the ends of the gradient coil, carrying current in an opposite direction to z and transverse gradient windings in order to produce a counterbalancing force such that the net and counterbalancing forces substantially cancel. In this manner, the gradient coil assembly is freed from the necessity of a substantial mechanical mountings and the vibration and distortion which large net forces can cause.

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