title: Synthesis of magnetic gradients for NMR tomography.
abstract: A numerical method is applied to calculate an optimal distribution of currents in air which generate the magnetic field gradients required to spatially encode the radiofrequency signal in a NMR tomographic experiment. We compare the performances of the gradient circuits for the whole body air-core electromagnet described by Bangert and Mansfield (J. Phys. E 15; 1982) with the results of our optimization.
authors.affiliation: Laboratorio NMR della Fondazione Mondino, GNSM-CISM del CNR, Università di Pavia, Bassi, Italy.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Mustarelli
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rudnicki
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Savini
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Savoldi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Villa
mesh_terms: D004574:Electromagnetic Fields; D055590:Electromagnetic Phenomena; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D008962:Models, Theoretical