Designing shielded radio-frequency phased-array coils for magnetic resonance imaging

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/22/1/010203

Abstract In this paper, an approach to the design of shielded radio-frequency (RF) phased-array coil for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is proposed. The target field method is used to find current densities distributed on primary and shield coils. The stream function technique is used to discretize current densities and to obtain the winding patterns of the coils. The corresponding highly ill-conditioned integral equation is solved by the Tikhonov regularization with a penalty function related to the minimum curvature. To balance the simplicity and smoothness with the homogeneity of magnetic field of the coil's winding pattern, the selection of penalty factor is discussed in detail.

Keywords: active shield phased-array coil radio-frequency coil magnetic resonance imaging

Received: 26 May 2012
Revised: 24 October 2012
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PACS:	02.30.Zz	(Inverse problems)
	41.20.-q	(Applied classical electromagnetism)
	41.20.Gz	(Magnetostatics; magnetic shielding, magnetic induction, boundary-value problems)
	84.32.Hh	(Inductors and coils; wiring)

Fund: Project supported by the National Nature Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 30900332), Grant of General Administration of Quality Supervision Inspection and Quarantine of China (Grant No. 201210079), the Program for Science and Technology Department of Zhejiang Province, China (Grant Nos. 2010C14010 and 2010C33172), and the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province, China (Grant No. Y2090966).

Corresponding Authors: Xu Wen-Long
E-mail: wenlongxu@sina.com

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Xu Wen-Long (徐文龙), Zhang Ju-Cheng (张鞠成), Li Xia (李霞), Xu Bing-Qiao (徐冰俏), Tao Gui-Sheng (陶贵生) Designing shielded radio-frequency phased-array coils for magnetic resonance imaging 2013 Chin. Phys. B 22 010203

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