Dimensioning of a superconducting shim device in a superconducting magnet arrangement
US6496091B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Aug 17, 2001 |
| Grant date | Dec 17, 2002 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 17, 2021 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG01R33/3875
- WIPO fieldMeasurement
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A superconducting magnet arrangement (M, S, P1, . . . , Pn) for generating a magnetic field in the direction of a z axis in a working volume, disposed about z=0, comprising a magnet coil system (M) with at least one current-carrying superconducting magnet coil, a shim device (S) with at least one superconducting shim coil and additional superconductingly closed current paths (P1, . . . , Pn), wherein the magnetic fields generated in the z direction and in the working volume by the additional current paths due to induced currents during operation, do not exceed a magnitude of 0.1 Tesla, and wherein the shim device generates a field which varies along the z axis with a kth power of z for an even power of k>0, is characterized in that the shim device is designed such that the effective field efficiency gSeff of the shim device is substantially zero taking into consideration the diamagnetism of the superconductor in the magnet coil system.
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