Peripheral nerve stimulation informed design of a high‐performance asymmetric head gradient coil

M Davids, P Dietz, G Ruyters, M Roesler… - Magnetic …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Peripheral nerve stimulation (PNS) limits the image encoding performance of both
body gradient coils and the latest generation of head gradients. We analyze a variety of …

Optimization of MRI gradient coils with explicit peripheral nerve stimulation constraints

M Davids, B Guérin, V Klein… - IEEE transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Peripheral Nerve Stimulation (PNS) limits the acquisition rate of Magnetic Resonance
Imaging data for fast sequences employing powerful gradient systems. The PNS …

Novel TMS coils designed using an inverse boundary element method

CC Sánchez, JMG Rodriguez… - Physics in Medicine …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
In this work, a new method to design TMS coils is presented. It is based on the inclusion of
the concept of stream function of a quasi-static electric current into a boundary element …

A Huygens' surface approach to rapid characterization of peripheral nerve stimulation

M Davids, B Guerin, LL Wald - Magnetic resonance in medicine, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Peripheral nerve stimulation (PNS) modeling has a potential role in designing and
operating MRI gradient coils but requires computationally demanding simulations of …

Coil design for magnetic particle imaging: Application for a preclinical scanner

G Bringout, TM Buzug - IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A method to design electromagnetic coils for magnetic particle imaging (MPI) scanners is
presented. Three different coils for a rabbit sized scanner are designed, namely, a cylindrical …

Breast Coil Optimization for Low Field MRI and future MR-guided Proton Therapy

TPP Hornung, N Koonjoo, S Shen… - IEEE Transactions …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective: Magnetic resonance imaging of the breast and the chest wall imaging was
performed at ultra-low field (ULF) using optimal radiofrequency (RF) coil designs and, with …

A Closed Formalism for Anatomy-Independent Projection and Optimization of Magnetic Stimulation Coils on Arbitrarily Shaped Surfaces

M Koehler, SM Goetz - IEEE Transactions on Biomedical …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Introduction: Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a popular method for the
noninvasive stimulation of neurons in the brain. It has become a standard instrument in …

Theoretical design of gradient coils with minimum power dissipation: Accounting for the discretization of current density into coil windings

PT While, JG Korvink, NJ Shah, MS Poole - Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 2013 - Elsevier
Gradient coil windings are typically constructed from either variable width copper tracks or
fixed width wires. Excessive power dissipation within these windings during gradient coil …

Convex optimisation of gradient and shim coil winding patterns

MS Poole, NJ Shah - Journal of magnetic resonance, 2014 - Elsevier
Gradient and shim coils were designed using boundary element methods with convex
optimisation. The convex optimisation framework permits the prototyping of many different …

Design of small-scale gradient coils in magnetic resonance imaging by using the topology optimization method

H Pan, F Jia, ZY Liu, M Zaitsev, J Hennig… - Chinese Physics …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
A topology optimization method based on the solid isotropic material with penalization
interpolation scheme is utilized for designing gradient coils for use in magnetic resonance …