A Design of Active Shimming Power Supply for Magnetic Resonance Spectrometers

doi:10.11938/cjmr20233066

Abstract

Abstract:

Highly homogeneous magnetic fields in magnetic resonance spectrometers are an important guarantee for improving the quality of spectra for chemical structure analysis and kinetic information. The active shimming process using a shimming power supply to drive a shimming coil to produce a compensating electromagnetic field is an essential way to improve the homogeneity of the magnetic field. The high accuracy and stability of the shimming power supply’s output are crucial indicators for improving the active shimming capability and maintaining the shimming results. The paper develops a high-precision, high-stability, low-ripple active shimming power supply system for magnetic resonance spectrometers, and designs a shimming current driver (constant current source) with output state monitoring based on negative feedback control, coupled with an MCU control platform and host computer system to complete the closed-loop transmission of control commands and data between hardware and software, to achieve digital constant current output control. Under R=2.84 Ω, L=25.5 µH shimming coil load, the full-scale output response time is less than 18.9 µs, the output ripple peak-to-peak control is 30 mV, the positive and negative current output symmetry is good, and the maximum output deviation is 4.8‰ for long time operation. This power supply was used in a nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer system using 0.5 T-Halbach configuration magnets, and the magnetic field homogeneity was optimised from 24.48 ppm (10^-6) to 2.72 ppm by driving a first-order shimming coil. This work contributes to the integration of compact nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer systems and the applications related to active shimming.

Key words: nuclear magnetic resonance, active shimming power supply, high precision, high stability, multi-channel

CLC Number:

O482.53

LIU Tingwei, PENG Bowen, XU Yajie, WANG Ya, WANG Feng, YU Peng, YANG Xiaodong. A Design of Active Shimming Power Supply for Magnetic Resonance Spectrometers[J]. Chinese Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 2024, 41(2): 117-127.

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序号	T	名称	时间（最小值）/ns
1	t₁	串行时钟周期	33
2	t₂	串行时钟高峰时段	13
3	t₃	串行时钟低谷时段	13
4	t₄	同步时钟到串行时钟上升沿建立时间	0
5	t₅	数据建立时间	5
6	t₆	数据保留时间	4.5
7	t₇	24^th串行时钟下降沿到同步时钟上升沿建立时间	0
8	t₈	最短同步高电平时间	33
9	t₉	24^th串行时钟下降沿到同步时钟下降沿建立时间	100