The design and construction of high field-uniformity permanent magnet system for MRI

This paper reports that the permanent magnet system used for MRI has some advantages: the lower cost/field ratio in the range of magnetic field 1.5-3.0 kG; no need power supply and cryogenic equipment. So, the MRI device with a permanent magnet system has marketable value. The MRI device requires a high field-uniformity magnet system. The necessary field-uniformity is better than several tens of ppm in a 30 cm diameter spherical volume. Generally, the shim coils can be used for correcting the magnetic field in working area, but the authors developed a passive method to correct the field-uniformity. First, the specially designed ferromagnetic pole pieces are disposed onto the surfaces of the main permanent magnet poles to improve the field-uniformity preliminarily. Then, the necessary field-uniformity will be obtained by using the magneto-dipoles which are suitably placed in the field domain