General Electric Company

Clifford Ginfrida, Jr

Longzhi Jiang

Ernst Wolfgang Stautner

Weijun Shen

Tao Zhang

John Scaturro, Jr

Neil Clarke

Robbi McDonald

A superconducting magnet coil support with cooling and a method for coil cooling are provided. One superconducting coil support arrangement includes a superconducting coil and at least one support beam supporting the superconducting coil and defining a tank for storing a cooling fluid therein. The superconducting coil support arrangement further includes a plurality of cooling tubes coupled to the superconducting coil and connected to the at least one support beam, wherein the plurality of cooling tubes are configured to transfer the cooling fluid therethrough.

Superconducting magnet coil support with cooling and method for coil-cooling

An apparatus and method for supporting a magnetic resonance imaging magnet are provided. The apparatus includes a magnet coil support structure having a main former body with a plurality of channels and an end flange at each end of the main former body. The end flanges are reinforced with a strengthening material at least at corner regions of the end flanges.

Apparatus for supporting and method for forming a support for a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) magnet

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Florence, SC, United States of America

Clifford Ginfrida, Jr