Report No xxxx - Instytut Fizyki JÄ drowej PAN
Report No xxxx - Instytut Fizyki JÄ drowej PAN
Report No xxxx - Instytut Fizyki JÄ drowej PAN
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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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