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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2002
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A magnet for use in a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus. The magnet includes magnetic poles and coils. The shape and positioning of the magnetic poles and coils enables provision of a uniform static magnetic field. The magnetic pole is provided with ring-shaped grooves and/or projections which compensate for axi-symmetric components of an inhomogeneous magnetic field and with partial grooves or partial projections not shaped in a ring which compensate for non-axi-symmetric components of the inhomogeneous magnetic field. Since the arrangement of the projections and grooves for compensating for the axi-symmetric and non-axi-symmetric components can also be optimized in design, a space occupied by the magnetic poles can be decreased.