| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/M49915/01 |
| Title: |
DESIGN OF IMPROVED MAGNET SYSTEMS FOR CLINICAL MRI USING NOVEL ALGORITHMS AND HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING |
| Principal Investigator: |
Ansorge, Dr RE |
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| Department: |
Physics |
| Organisation: |
University of Cambridge |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 July 1999 |
Ends: |
31 March 2004 |
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657,900
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Instrumentation Eng. & Dev. |
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| Healthcare |
Information Technologies |
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This program is a collaborative initiative between the groups in the University of Cambridge Physics department and the Clinical School. We propose a new initiative to develop a validated suite of computer codes for the design of novel magnets and gradient-sets for clinical MRI.The developed computer codes will be computationally intensive and require high-performance parallel computers. We note that such computers are rapidly becoming more available and that some of us already have significant experience using these systems. We have successfully carried out MRI gradient- set designs using genetic algorithms running on parallel computers.This proposal is therefore timely because up till now magnet design has typically been based on analytical methods (using linear combinations of field elements having a high degree of symmetry). These traditional approaches have had limited success for some magnet designs due to their inherent approximations. We believe that novel computationally intensive design methods, for example using genetic algorithms have great potential.Specifically we intend to design, build and evaluate an Ultra-Short High-Homogeneity whole body magnet system suitable for clinical MRI. Such a magnet system would itself be of great clinical utility and its successful design would validate our algorithms and computer code.
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http://www.cam.ac.uk |