| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/M94915/01 |
| Title: |
APPLICATION OF MELT PROCESSED HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS TO PRE-POLARISATION IN MRI |
| Principal Investigator: |
Cardwell, Professor DA |
| Other Investigators: |
|
| Researcher Co-Investigators: |
|
| Project Partners: |
|
| Department: |
Engineering |
| Organisation: |
University of Cambridge |
| Scheme: |
LINK |
| Starts: |
31 January 2000 |
Ends: |
29 April 2003 |
Value (£): |
90,233
|
| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Instrumentation Eng. & Dev. |
Materials Processing |
|
| EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications: |
|
| Related Grants: |
|
| Panel History: |
|
|
Summary on Grant Application Form |
|
Low field, open magnet MRI is emerging rapidly as an attractive technique for clinical and non-clinical investigations. Image resolution, however, is condisered to be the major limitation of this technique and, as a result, pre-polarisation has been proposed as a method to improve image quality significantly. A small scale pre-polariser unit based on superconducting melt processed YBCO will be developed and evaluated under a MedLINK collaboration involving four U.K. and European companies, tow U.K. university and Imperial School of Medicine. The role of the IRC in Superconductivity (a sub-group of the Department of Engineering) will be to manufacture significant quantities of melt processed material, optimise its properties for this application and enable the transfer of technology to U.K. industry.
|
|
Key Findings |
|
This information can now be found on Gateway to Research (GtR) http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk
|
|
Potential use in non-academic contexts |
|
This information can now be found on Gateway to Research (GtR) http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk
|
|
Impacts |
|
| Description |
This information can now be found on Gateway to Research (GtR) http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk |
| Summary |
|
| Date Materialised |
|
|
|
|
Sectors submitted by the Researcher |
|
This information can now be found on Gateway to Research (GtR) http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk
|
| Project URL: |
|
| Further Information: |
|
| Organisation Website: |
http://www.cam.ac.uk |