The possible influence of third-order shim coils on gradient–magnet interactions: an inter-field and inter-site study

Nicolas Boulant1, Caroline Le Ster1, Alexis Amadon1, Guy Aubert2, Alexander Beckett3,4, Jean Belorgey5, Cédric Bonnelye1, Dario Bosch6,7, David Otto Brunner8, Guillaume Dilasser2, Olivier Dubois5, Philipp Ehses9, David Feinberg3,4, Sajjad Feizollah10, Vincent Gras1, Simon Gross8, Quentin Guihard5, Hervé Lannou2, Denis Le Bihan1, Franck Mauconduit1, Frédéric Molinié5, François Nunio5, Klaas Pruessmann11, Lionel Quettier2, Klaus Scheffler6,7, Tony Stöcker9, Christine Tardif10, Kamil Ugurbil12, Alexandre Vignaud1, An Vu13,14, Xiaoping Wu12
1CEA, CNRS, BAOBAB, NeuroSpin, University Paris-Saclay, Gif Sur Yvette Cedex, France
2CEA, Irfu, DACM, University Paris-Saclay, Gif Sur Yvette, France
3Brain Imaging Center and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, USA
4Advanced MRI Technologies, Sebastopol, USA
5CEA, Irfu, DIS, University Paris-Saclay, Gif Sur Yvette, France
6Department for Biomedical Magnetic Resonance, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
7High-Field MR Center, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany
8Skope MRT, Zurich, Switzerland
9Center for Neurogenerative Diseases, Bonn, Germany
10Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
11ETH Zürich and University of Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
12Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
13University of California, San Francisco, USA
14San Francisco VA Health Care System, San Francisco, USA

Tóm tắt

To assess the possible influence of third-order shim coils on the behavior of the gradient field and in gradient–magnet interactions at 7 T and above. Gradient impulse response function measurements were performed at 5 sites spanning field strengths from 7 to 11.7 T, all of them sharing the same exact whole-body gradient coil design. Mechanical fixation and boundary conditions of the gradient coil were altered in several ways at one site to study the impact of mechanical coupling with the magnet on the field perturbations. Vibrations, power deposition in the He bath, and field dynamics were characterized at 11.7 T with the third-order shim coils connected and disconnected inside the Faraday cage. For the same whole-body gradient coil design, all measurements differed greatly based on the third-order shim coil configuration (connected or not). Vibrations and gradient transfer function peaks could be affected by a factor of 2 or more, depending on the resonances. Disconnecting the third-order shim coils at 11.7 T also suppressed almost completely power deposition peaks at some frequencies. Third-order shim coil configurations can have major impact in gradient–magnet interactions with consequences on potential hardware damage, magnet heating, and image quality going beyond EPI acquisitions.

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