High-Temperature Superconducting Magnets for NMR and MRI: R&D Activities at the MIT Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory

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 MgB[subscript 2] 0.5-T/800-mm whole-body MRI magnet.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Iwasa, Yukikazu, Bascunan, Juan, Hahn, Seung-Yong, Tomita, Masaru, Yao, Weijun
Other Authors: Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/69163
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5712-7350

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