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EPSRC Reference: GR/R73812/01
Title: Development of the technical capabilities needed to make a magnet suitable for cardiac catherterisation
Principal Investigator: Besant, Professor C
Other Investigators:
Young, Professor I Lampérth, Dr M Young, Professor I
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Project Partners:
Oxford Magnet Technology Ltd
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Organisation: Imperial College London
Scheme: LINK
Starts: 15 January 2002 Ends: 14 June 2005 Value (£): 377,121
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:
Instrumentation Eng. & Dev.
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:
Healthcare
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The target of this project is to create the capabilities needed for development of a magnet for an MRI machine for coronary and cranial catherterisation. This demands that clinicians have extremely good patient access; that system performance is good; that the magnet can be switched from off to on very swiftly minimising exposure of staff to the magnet field. The system means the assembly of very accurately positioned magnetic components round the patient, and the use of pre-polarisation to enhance performance. The force rising from the latter provide very extreme problems for the former.
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