Sh.M. Shvartsman

Application of the SUSHI method to the design of gradient coils

An approach to potential improvements in magnetic field shielding for a gradient coil system with cylindrical geometry is presented, utilizing “supershielding” conditions for the currents on both the primary and the secondary coils. It is demonstrated that the field can be strongly suppressed everywhere outside a cylindrical shield coil radius, even though the finite‐length active shield only partially surrounds a primary coil. The supershielding method, which is aimed at controlling eddy currents, still has sufficient freedom to maintain the desired magnetic field behavior inside the imaging volume. The trade‐off is an additional primary current oscillation and increased current peaks and field energy. This method has been applied to design short transverse and axial gradient coils, giving substantially improved shielding compared to an apodization method. Magn Reson Med 45:147–155, 2001.

Spinor and isospinor structure of relativistic particle propagators

Abstract Representations by means of path integrals are used to find spinor and isospinor structure of relativistic particle propagators in external fields. For Dirac propagator in an external electromagnetic field all grassmannian integrations are performed and a general result is presented via a bosonic path integral. The spinor structure of the integrand is given explicitly by its decomposition in the independent γ-matrix structures. Similar technique is used to get the isospinor structure of the scalar particle propagator in an external non-Abelian field.

Toward shielding improvements in MRI gradients and other systems

Abstract A new method is described for reducing the shielding-error function in the ‘supershielding’ approach to designing MRI systems. The method is thus shown to lead to significantly better shielding and better control of eddy current effects associated with gradient coils. To illustrate this technique, a set of results for a z-gradient coil is presented. A generalization to non-standard geometries can be made in a straightforward manner with the new method. The usefulness of the relationship of all fringe-field quantities to the shielding-error function is emphasized. The formal limit of perfect shielding in a ‘least-squares’ sense is shown for a simple strip-shield model along with a numerical eigenvalue study for comparison with the theoretical limit.

Relativistic spinning particle in a gravitational field with torsion

A model of a relativistic spinning particle in a gravitational field with a flat metric and a constant torsion is analyzed within the framework of classical mechanics. The Lagrange equations allow an exact integration.