Название: Magnetic Resonance Technology: Hardware and System Component Design
Автор: Webb A.G. (Ed.)
Издательство: The Royal Society of Chemistry
Год: 2016
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 402
Размер: 44 mb
Язык: английский

This book is intended for the NMR or MRI operator who sits down at the console for the first, second or even one hundredth time and wonders “why is this component designed this way, what does this button REALLY do, why didn’t they do it this way?” Historically, many of the pioneers of magnetic resonance (Bloch, Gutowsky, Schlichter, Lauterbur and Mansfield, to name a few) also constructed their own equipment. The seed of a new experiment required a deep knowledge of the quantum mechanical behaviour of the spin system, but to actually perform an experiment it was necessary to build the equipment oneself, and not to get on the cell phone to complain to the relevant vendor. While acknowledging that the days of being able to fix a system with a sheath of circuit diagrams and a well-aimed soldering iron are regrettably over, we believe that understanding how a system works expands the opportunities for new science and engineering to flourish.

Contents
The Principles of Magnetic Resonance, and Associated Hardware
Magnets
Radiofrequency Coils
B0 Shimming Technology
Magnetic Field Gradients
Radiofrequency Amplifiers for NMR/MRI
The MR Receiver Chain
Electromagnetic Modelling