Michael Stephen Poole1, Hector Sanchez
Lopez1, Stuart Crozier1, Iwao Nakajima2,
Shin-Ichi Urayama3
1ITEE, University of
Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia; 2Takashima Seisakusho Co.,
Ltd., Tokyo, Japan; 3Human Brain Research Center, Kyoto University
Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
Gradient and shim coils were designed for a high-temperature superconductor magnet system. Particular attention was paid to minimisation of the eddy currents generated in the cryostat of the experimental magnet. The constrained space and requirement for wide wire spacing in the design dictated the use of minimax current density technique which more than doubled the efficiency of the transverse gradient coils.