title: Study on a fully open magnetic resonance imaging device with a slice imaging region.
abstract: A new unilateral permanent magnet configuration for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system producing a slice imaging region with field homogeneity is presented. It is a totally new problem about magnet design to build a slice imaging region with homogeneous magnetic field outside the magnet source. A novel design method with high precision is proposed here to probe the existence possibility of such a remote slice region and then is used to analyze the location and size of the slice region. The success of such a unilateral permanent magnet with a slice region for MRI builds a strong basis for some scientific research such as the construction of the unilateral MRI system with homogeneous magnetic field.
authors.affiliation: School of Electrical Engineering, Shenyang, University of Technology, Shenyang, Liaoning 110023, P.R. CHINA (phone: 86-024-25691429; e-mail: xiebaiy@sy.ln.cn).
authors.forename: Bai
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Baodong
authors.forename: Zhang
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Yanli
authors.forename: Xie
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Dexin
authors.forename: Xia
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Pingchou