USE OF HIGH-TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTOR IN A RECEIVER COIL FOR MAGNETIC-RESONANCE-IMAGING

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作者
HALL, AS
ALFORD, NM
BUTTON, TW
GILDERDALE, DJ
GEHRING, KA
YOUNG, IR
机构
[1] ICI PLC,ADV MAT RES,RUNCORN WA7 4QE,CHESHIRE,ENGLAND
[2] HAMMERSMITH HOSP,NMR UNIT,LONDON W12 0HS,ENGLAND
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10.1002/mrm.1910200218
中图分类号
R8 [特种医学]; R445 [影像诊断学];
学科分类号
1002 ; 100207 ; 1009 ;
摘要
A planar YBa2Cu3Ox (YBCO) coil has been used as a pick‐up coil in a nuclear magnetic resonance imager. It was found that the quality factor Q of the YBCO coil was greater than its copper counterpart by approaching 50% even in a field of 0.15 T. The Q of the copper coil at 77 K and in a field of 0.15 T was 1200 while that of the YBCO coil under identical conditions was 1700. © 1991 Academic Press, Inc. Copyright © 1991 Wiley‐Liss, Inc., A Wiley Company
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