Target field method for MRI biplanar gradient coil design英文文献.pdfVIP

IOP PUBLISHING JOURNAL OF PHYSICS D: APPLIED PHYSICS J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 40 (2007) 4418–4424 doi:10.1088/0022-3727/40/15/005 Target-field method for MRI biplanar gradient coil design 1 1,3 1 2 Wentao Liu , Donglin Zu , Xin Tang and Hua Guo 1 Institute of Heavy Ion Physics, Beijing Key Laboratory of Medical Physics and Engineering, Physics School, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People’s Republic of China 2 Siemens Mindit Magnetic Resonance Ltd, Shenzhen 518057, China E-mail: dlzu@pku.edu.cn and dlzu@mpe.pku.edu.cn Received 17 April 2007, in final form 4 June 2007 Published 13 July 2007 Online at stacks.iop.org/JPhysD/40/4418 Abstract Based on the target-field method of solving Fredholm integral equations of the first kind, a new approach is presented in the paper for designing gradient coils that can be used in a permanent-magnet magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system with biplanar poles. To restrict the current distribution on the coil plane within a finite radius, the current density is pre-expanded into Fourier series by orthogonal basis functions. By setting the target-field points and Bz values over the imaging region of interest, corresponding integral equations are derived from the Biot–Savart law to calculate the current densities. They form a matrix equation, in which the unknown elements of the column vector are the Fourier coefficients for the unknown current density. As long as these target-field points are well chosen, the Fourier coefficients can be solved by inverse matrix calculation instead of the regularization method for Fredholm integral equations of the first kind. Then the current density is discretized using the stream-function method to generate the winding patterns. To verify