High-temperature superconducting magnets for NMR and MRI: R∧D activities at the MIT francis bitter magnet laboratory

  • Yukikazu Iwasa
  • , Juan Bascuñán
  • , Seungyong Hahn
  • , Masaru Tomita
  • , Weijun Yao

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Abstract

This paper describes the NMR/MRI magnets that are currently being developed at the MIT Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory: 1) a 1.3 GHz NMR magnet; 2) a compact NMR magnet assembled from YBCO annuli; and 3) a persistent-mode, fully-protected MgB2 0.5-T/800-mm whole-body MRI magnet.

Original languageEnglish
Article number5424088
Pages (from-to)718-721
Number of pages4
JournalIEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity
Volume20
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 2010
Externally publishedYes

Funding

The authors thank NCRR, NIBIB, and NIGMS of the National Institutes of Health for support of the magnet projects at FBML. We also thank Dr. John Voccio of American Superconductor Corp. (AMSC) and AMSC for their interest in our annulus magnet project and generous supply of plate annuli prepared from YBCO coated tape. Manuscript received October 20, 2009. First published March 04, 2010; current version published May 28, 2010. This work was supported by the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), and the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS).

Keywords

  • Compact NMR annulus magnet
  • LTS/HTS NMR magnet
  • MgB MRI magnet

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