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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 2024
Filed:
Apr. 16, 2020
Commissariat a L'energie Atomique ET Aux Energies Alternatives, Paris, FR;
Bruno Pinho-Meneses, Gif-sur-Yvette, FR;
Alexis Amadon, Gif-sur-Yvette, FR;
Abstract
A method of designing/manufacturing a static-magnetic-field shimming coil system for magnetic resonance imaging, includes determining an optimal stream function, defined on a reference surface enclosing a region of interest, for each member of a cohort of magnetic resonance imaging subjects; performing a Principal Component Analysis of the stream functions; determining at least one coil wiring pattern defined on the reference surface by discretizing at least a most significant principal component of the stream functions. A static-magnetic-field shimming coil system suitable to be obtained by the method at least one hollow dielectric support element having a cavity containing the region of interest and a surface having a shape corresponding to the reference surface or, where appropriate, one the additional surface; and a set of conducting elements deposed on or affixed to the surface of the dielectric support, forming the or one the coil wiring pattern.