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A NOVEL SOURCE OF MAGNETIC FIELD<br />

FOR IMAGING LASER-POLARIZED 3 HE<br />

Katarzyna Suchanek, Mateusz Suchanek, Katarzyna Cieślar, Tadeusz Pałasz,<br />

Zbigniew Olejniczak*, Tomasz Dohnalik<br />

Marian Smoluchowski Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland;<br />

*Henryk Niewodniczański Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kraków, Poland<br />

The development of the system for NMR imaging of the laser-polarized helium-3 is<br />

presented. The source of magnetic field is a permanent Nd-Fe-B magnet characterized by high<br />

saturation induction. Since the magnetic field exhibits a large temperature coefficient, the<br />

magnet is placed in an air-conditioned Faraday cage, in which the temperature is stabilized<br />

with accuracy of +/- 0.1 °C.<br />

A 10 cm diameter sphere is a suitable working volume for imaging small animal lungs.<br />

A specially designed positioning device was used to precisely measure the magnetic field map<br />

on a sphere of radius 5 cm. The initial inhomogeneity of the magnetic field was 361 ppm<br />

within the sphere. In order to obtain good quality images, it was necessary to reduce this inhomogeneity<br />

by an order of magnitude. The method of improving the homogeneity relies on<br />

placing precisely distributed pieces of steel on the poles of the magnet (passive shimming).Using<br />

this method a homogeneity of 56 ppm within the sphere was achieved.<br />

A system of actively shielded gradient coils mounted between the poles is used for<br />

spatial encoding of the NMR signal. The linearity and efficiency of the gradient coils were<br />

tested. In addition, the magnitude and the time constant of the eddy currents generated in the<br />

magnet poles was estimated.<br />

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