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The superior performance of superconducting magnets for magnetic resonance imaging has led to the production of over 1000 magnets for this application. Further growth in this industry will depend on reducing system costs, extending medical applications, and easing the present siting problem. New magnet designs from Oxford address these issues. Compact magnets are economical to build and operate. A 4 Tesla whole body magnet for research in Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy. (MRS) has been successfully tested. Active-Shield magnets, by drastically reducing the fringing field, will allow MRI systems with superconducting magnets to be located in previously inaccessible sites.
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D.G. Hawksworth, I.L. McDougall, J.M. Bird, D. Black, Considerations in the design of MRI magnets with reduced stray fields, presented at 1986 Applied Superconductivity Conference, Baltimore, MD.
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Andrews, D.E. (1988). Magnetic Resonance Imaging in 1987. In: Fast, R.W. (eds) Advances in Cryogenic Engineering. A Cryogenic Engineering Conference Publication, vol 33. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9874-5_1
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