• 한국초전도ㆍ저온공학회논문지
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.29-33
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• 2018

Although high-temperature superconducting (HTS) magnets have the potential merit of producing ultra-high field (>25 T), they have been not easy to apply to Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) because of the difficulty of field homogeneity improvement. This paper presents a design technique of passive shimming for HTS magnets. Ferromagnetic shimming design code was developed though MALAB, which includes the optimization algorithm. The proper shim element size was determined by a simulation. This design technique was verified by a case study design of a 3-T HTS magnet. We succeed to improve field homogeneity of the magnet from 634 ppm to 6.39 ppm at 10-mm diameter sphere volume. Feasibility of passive shimming for all-HTS NMR magnet was confirmed by this result.

• 한국초전도저온공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국초전도저온공학회 2000년도 KIASC Conference 2000 / 2000년도 학술대회 논문집
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• pp.143-146
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• 2000

Generally, two methods can be used to correct the undesirable magnetic field of MRI. One is active shimming method and the other is passive shimming. Passive shimming method uses many magnetized shims to correct the field. And it involves hardwared for supporting shim trays and a software to calculate a field map and optimaze the locations of the shims[1]. The software is the most important part of the passive shimming system. We made a prototype of the software and tested it in a virtual situation.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제59권6호
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• pp.1059-1063
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• 2010

Shimming is an important technique in development of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) magnets where image resolution is highly dependent on magnetic field homogeneity. Classically, shimming may be categorized into two types: 1) active shimming that incorporates with extra coils and precise tuning of their currents; and 2)passive shimming that incorporates with pieces of steel placed in a bore of a main magnet and their uniform magnetization under homogeneous external fields. Additional magnetic fields, produced by the coils and/or the steel sheets, compensate original magnetic field from the main magnet in such a way that the total field becomes more homogeneous. In this paper, we developed a passive shimming method based on linear programming optimization. Linear programming is well known to be highly efficient to find a global minimum in various linear problems. We firstly confirmed the linearity of magnetization of ferromagnetic pieces under a presence of external magnetic fields. Then, we adopted the linear programming to find optimized allocation of the steel pieces in the inner bore of a main magnet to improve field homogeneity.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제1권4호
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• pp.461-465
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• 2006

This paper presents a useful and simple method to design the passive skimming system for homogeneous permanent magnets based on numerical optimization. To simulate the effects of manufacturing and assembling tolerances, the actual geometrical parameter of the magnet with a derivation is suggested. Then, the optimal design model oi a passive shim system is set up to correct the derivative of field homogeneity. The numbers, sizes and locations of the passive shims are optimized by the steepest descent algorithm combined with design sensitivity analysis. Two implementations show that the proposed method can achieve the required homogeneity of the field with the minimum quantity of ferromagnetics.

• 한국초전도ㆍ저온공학회논문지
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.14-19
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• 2012

Shimming, active and/or passive, is indispensable for most MR (magnetic resonance) magnets where homogeneous magnetic fields are required within target spaces. Generally, shimming consists of two steps, field mapping and correcting of fields, and they are recursively repeated until the target field homogeneity is reached. Thus, accuracy of the field mapping is crucial for fast and efficient shimming of MR magnets. For an accurate shimming, a "magnetic" center, which is a mathematical origin for harmonic analysis, must be carefully defined, Although the magnetic center is in general identical to the physical center of a magnet, it is not rare that both centers are different particularly in HTS (high temperature superconducting) magnets of which harmonic field errors, especially high orders, are significantly dependent on a location of the magnetic center. This paper presents a new algorithm, based on a field mapping theory with harmonic analysis, to define the best magnetic center of an MR magnet in terms of minimization of pre-shimming field errors. And the proposed algorithm is tested with simulation under gaussian noise environment.

• 대한자기공명의과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한자기공명의과학회 2003년도 제8차 학술대회 초록집
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• pp.103-105
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• 2003

After fifteen years of development, Magnetic Resonance (MR) technology for human imaging and spectroscopy is reaching a refined state with FDA approved 3T clinical products from Siemens, GE, and Philips. Broker has cleared CE approval with a 4T system. Varian supports a 4T system platform as well. Shielded magnets are standard at 3T from GE, Oxford, Magnex, and IGC. A shielded 4T whole body magnet is available from Oxford. Stronger switched gradients and dynamic shim coils, desired at any field, areespecially useful at higher static magnetic fields B0. In addition to the higher currents required for higher resolution slice or volume selection afforded by higher SNR, whole body gradient coils will be driven at increasing slew rates to meet the needs of new cardiac applications and other requirements. For example 3T and 4T systems are now being equipped with 2kV, 500A gradient coils and amplifiers capable of generating 4G/cm in 200msec, over a 67+/-cm bore diameter. High field EPI applications require oscillation rates at 1 kHz and higher. To achieve a benchmark 0.2 ppm shim over a 30cm sphere in a high field magnet, at least four stages of shimming need to be considered. 1) A good high field magnet will be built to a homogeneity spec. falling in the range of 100 to 150 ppm over this 30cm spherical "sweet spot" 2) Most modern high field magnets will also have superconducting shim coils capable of finding 1.5 ppm by their adjustment during system installation. 3) Passive ferro-magnetic shimming combined with 4) active, high order room temperature shim coils (as many as five orders are now being recommended) will accomplish 0.2 ppm over the 30cm sphere, and 0.1 ppm over a human brain in even the highest field magnets for human studies. Safety concerns for strong, fast gradients at any B0 field include acoustic noise and peripheral nerve stimulation. One or more of the mechanical decoupling methods may lead to quieter gradients. Patient positioning relative to asymmetric or short gradient coils may limit peripheral nerve stimulation at higher slew rates. Gradient designs combining a short coil for local speed and strength with a longer coil for coverage are being developed for 3T systems. Local gradients give another approach to maximizing performance over a limited region while keeping within the physiologically imposed dB0/dt performance limits.

• 한국유통학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국유통학회 2003년도 동계학술대회 발표논문집
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• pp.123-166
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• 2003

마케팅 경로는 여러 개의 유통 기관이 상호 관련을 맺으면서 분업과 협업을 하는 기능적 조직의 성격을 가진 사회 시스템의 하나로 인식되고 있다. 유통경로 내에서의 경로구성원들은 서로 상호작용을 하면서 유리한 위치에서 거래를 성사시키기 위해 노력을 한다. 따라서 경로구성원들은 유리한 위치를 차지하기 위해 파워를 행사하게 되고 행사된 파워는 경로구성원들간의 만족과 갈등에 영향을 미친다. 최근 대형소매업체들의 증가로 구매파워를 내세운 바이어들이 생산업자보다 더 막강한 파워를 행사하는 현상이 유통경로 내에서 일반적으로 일어나고 있다. 그러나 공급자의 입장에서 다양한 공급경로가 있고 또한 제품의 특성상 계절성이 강하고 공급의 불안정성이 상대적으로 큰 농산물인 경우에는 공급자와 바이어의 파워형태가 공산품인 경우와는 다른 모습을 보일 것이라 예상된다. 따라서 유통업체와 공급업자에게는 지속적인 관계 유지를 위해 효과적인 방안들을 제시하고 또한 정책입안자들에게도 각각 맞는 시사점을 제시하여 유통경로 전체의 성과를 높일 수 있도록 발전적인 방향을 제시하고자 한다. 서로간의 믿음이나 신뢰성이 있는 거래관계를 유지하기 위해서는 유통경로구성원들간의 인식의 변화가 필요하다고 본다. 그러기 위해서는 공급자와 바이어의 관계를 종속관계가 아닌 협력관계로의 사고전환이 경로구성원 모두에게 필요하다고 본다. 상대적으로 파워가 약한 공급자는 스스로 경쟁력 요소를 강화하여 전문적 파워를 갖추고 유통업체의 강력한 제품 공급처를 유지하기 위해 품질유지에 대한 노하우로 기술적인 전문성을 강화시켜야 할 것이다. 또한 농산물의 브랜드화도 유통거래 상에서 경쟁력을 높일 수 있는 좋은 방안이 될 것이다.example 3T and 4T systems are now being equipped with 2kV, 500A gradient coils and amplifiers capable of generating 4G/cm in 200msec, over a 67+/-cm bore diameter. High field EPI applications require oscillation rates at 1 kHz and higher. To achieve a benchmark 0.2 ppm shim over a 30cm sphere in a high field magnet, at least four stages of shimming need to be considered. 1) A good high field magnet will be built to a homogeneity spec. falling in the range of 100 to 150 ppm over this 30cm spherical "sweet spot" 2) Most modern high field magnets will also have superconducting shim coils capable of finding 1.5 ppm by their adjustment during system installation. 3) Passive ferro-magnetic shimming combined with 4) active, high order room temperature shim coils (as many as five orders are now being recommended) will accomp