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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 11, 2017
Synaptive Medical (Barbados) Inc., Bridgetown, BB;
Geron André Bindseil, Toronto, CA;
Chad Tyler Harris, Toronto, CA;
William Bradfield Handler, Toronto, CA;
Blaine Alexander Chronik, Toronto, CA;
SYNAPTIVE MEDICAL (BARBADOS) INC., Bridgetown, BB;
Abstract
A method of manufacturing electromagnet coils for use in a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system is provided. The method comprises forming a coil representation of a coil surface for the electromagnet coils; setting a plurality of performance metric requirements for a plurality of performance metrics for the electromagnet coils, the plurality of performance metrics including a magnetic field-shape metric and an eddy-field metric; forming a performance functional, based on the coil representation and the plurality of performance metrics, for generating a current density pattern over the coil surface; optimizing the performance functional based on the plurality of performance metric requirements; generating a current density pattern over the coil surface based on the minimized performance functional; and obtaining coil windings from the current density pattern.