WO1999050689A1 - Magnetic resonance detection coil that is immune to environmental noise - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a coil for detecting a magnetic resonance signal induced in a sample and, more particularly, to a coil that is immune to environmental noise and also, is less sensitive to the effects of nearby electrically conducting media.
- Magnetic resonance is useful to detect the presence of a specific substance in a sample.
- radio frequency (RF) radiation at a particular frequency will induce a magnetic resonance signal in a specific substance, but not in other substances. Therefore, the induced magnetic resonance signal can be detected to thereby indicate the presence of the specific substance.
- RF radio frequency
- NMR Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
- NQR Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance
- the sample is placed in or near an inductor, commonly referred to as a coil, that detects AC magnetic fields.
- the inductance of the coil is tuned with a parallel and/or series capacitance to make the circuit electrically resonant at the measurement frequency.
- One or more additional reactive impedances are typically added to adjust the resistive impedance at resonance to a particular value which optimizes the detection sensitivity.
- FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating an example of a conventional magnetic resonance apparatus.
- a transmitter 20 and a receiver 22 are connected to a probe 24 through a transmit/receive (T/R) switch 26.
- Probe 24 includes a coil 28, forming part of a resonant, tuned tank circuit with various other inductors L and capacitors C.
- T/R switch 26 connects transmitter 20 to probe 24 while disconnecting receiver 22 from probe 24.
- transmitter 20 generates a pulse and supplies the pulse to probe 24.
- the pulse is formed from an RF signal having a frequency corresponding to the resonance signal of the target substance which is intended to be detected.
- Probe 24 receives the pulse, which causes coil 28 to store (RF) energy.
- the stored RF energy will cause a corresponding RF magnetic field to irradiate the sample.
- the RF magnetic field will induce a magnetic resonance signal in the target substance.
- the apparatus operates under the principles of NMR, then an appropriate NMR resonance signal will be induced.
- the apparatus operates under the principles of NQR, then an appropriate NQR resonance signal will be induced.
- FIG. 1 is only one example of a magnetic resonance apparatus.
- FIG. 1 illustrates T/R switch 26 to connect transmitter 20 and receiver 22 to the same probe 24.
- a transmitter and receiver can each have a separate, dedicated probe together with a switch or gate for protecting the receiver while the transmitter is ON.
- FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a simple, conventional coil which can be used in a probe.
- a coil 29 typically forms a loop.
- a tuning capacitance C and a matching capacitance C are also provided.
- the signal-to-noise ratio is determined, in part, by the noise contributions and the quality factor (Q) of the receiver coil. It is well-known that random thermal noise contributions typically arise from Johnson noise in the RF inspection coil and the first amplifier in the receiver. A further noise contribution is from extraneous environmental noise.
- the Q of a receiver coil is determined not only by resistive loss in the windings of coil itself but also by loss in nearby electrically conducting samples that can dissipate energy from the receiver coil.
- SNR typically varies as Q'
- such electrical loss in the sample leads to a reduction in SNR.
- the main source of electrical loss can come from the patient, and not the receiver coil windings, as the water in the body has an electrical conductivity comparable to sea water.
- NQR landmine detection it is found that wet soils also present significant electrical loading to the receiver coil, leading to a decreased coil Q and decreased SNR.
- a surface coil is used for the inspection.
- Approaches for achieving this may employ detector (or transmitter) coils that create electromagnetic fields designed to (i) reject electromagnetic environmental noise that does not vary across the dimensions of the coil and (ii) to couple strongly to signals that arise near the surface of a sample, and more weakly with those deeper inside a sample.
- a common coil would typically be used as both a receiver coil and a transmitter coil, though this is not essential. In MRI separate coils would typically be used.
- the RF coil used as a detector in magnetic resonance is not at all optimized for the detection of radio signals, nonetheless the detection coil can act as a (rather inefficient) radio receiving antenna. This radio interference, either from radio stations, or other RF noise in the relevant frequency range can easily overwhelm the magnetic resonance signals of interest.
- an external RF shield is used to surround the coil to prevent such radio signals or other electrical and magnetic environmental noise from being picked up by the coil.
- an external RF shield is impractical in many applications, and can also increase the cost and size of a system.
- a gradiometer is one example of the latter approach.
- a gradiometer can be designed to respond to any order of the spatial derivative of the electric or magnetic field.
- a conventional (linear or first order) gradiometer that is (primarily) sensitive to the first derivative of the field, and correspondingly insensitive to the component that does not vary.
- a conventional gradiometer provides a means to cancel fields that have wavelengths much larger than the characteristic size of the gradiometer, thereby reducing noise pickup from distant sources.
- the free space wavelength of a 1 MHz signal is 300 meters.
- a conventional (linear) magnetic field gradiometer is formed of two loops which are spatially removed from each other and have currents flowing in opposite directions.
- FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a conventional magnetic field gradiometer.
- a conventional magnetic field gradiometer has a conductor 30 which forms two loops 32 and 34 wound in the opposite sense. That is, the direction of the current changes in coils 32 and 34, so that magnetic fields generated by coils 32 and 34 are opposite each other.
- an external RF shield must often be used with a conventional magnetic field gradiometer to reduce environmental electrical noise pick-up.
- various conventional coil designs reduce environmental noise pick-up by providing "internal" shielding.
- internal shielding refers to the coil being electrically balanced to cancel out electrical noise. It has long been known that such electrical balancing can reduce the interaction between the coil and electric fields from its surroundings, so that there is no net electric dipole formed between the coil and the surroundings.
- a Stensgaard split-shield resonator coil is a type of coil which provides internal shielding to reduce environmental noise pick-up from electric fields.
- FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating a Stensgaard split-shield resonator coil.
- a coaxial cable 36 has a center conductor 38 and a shield 40, and forms a loop.
- Shield 40 is split at a position 42 half way around the loop.
- An RF feed is provided via center conductor 38.
- the resulting currents which flow on the outside of shield 40 are automatically electrically balanced due to geometry.
- Connecting portion 43 indicates that the shield 40 of each end of transmission line 36 is connected together near the feed point.
- a tuning capacitance C, a matching capacitance C and a terminating impedance Z are typically used.
- This type of split- shield resonator is considered to be an optimized, internally shielded (that is, self-shielded) loop resonator, and is well suited for NMR medical imaging applications.
- the noise level without external RF shielding was approximately 20 to 25 dB larger than the noise level with external RF shielding. Further, the noise without RF shielding could not be significantly reduced with additional shielding from external electric fields. This result indicates that while the Stensgaard split-shield resonator removes electrical noise pick-up, it is still prone to magnetic interference.
- Objects of the present invention are achieved by providing a coil which includes a transmission line having first and second ends.
- the conductor of the transmission line is electrically continuous from the first to the second end.
- the shield of the transmission line is split at a position between the first and second ends to cause the coil to be electrically balanced and to define first and second sections in series which together have a geometric configuration so that a uniform magnetic field through the coil induces currents in each section with the sum of those currents being substantially less than the current flowing in either section.
- Objects of the present invention are also achieved by providing a coil which includes a transmission line forming first and second loops in series between the ends of the transmission line.
- the first and second loops together have a geometric configuration so that a uniform magnetic field through the coil induces currents in each loop with the sum of those currents being substantially less than the current flowing in either loop.
- the conductor is electrically continuous through the transmission line.
- the shield is split at a position between the first and second loops to cause the coil to be electrically balanced.
- objects of the present invention are achieved by providing a coil which includes a transmission line configured as a magnetic field gradiometer.
- the conductor of the transmission line is electrically continuous through the coil.
- the shield of the transmission line is split at a position which causes the magnetic field gradiometer to be electrically balanced.
- FIG. 1 (prior art) is a diagram illustrating an example of a conventional magnetic resonance apparatus.
- FIG. 2 (prior art) is a diagram illustrating a simple, conventional surface coil.
- FIG. 3 (prior art) is a diagram illustrating a conventional magnetic field gradiometer.
- FIG. 4 (prior art) is a diagram illustrating a Stensgaard split-shield resonator coil.
- FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating a noise immune gradiometer split-shield coil, according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating the use of the coil in FIG. 5 to transmit from only one section, according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating the use of the coil in FIG. 5 to transmit a more uniform RF field, according to an additional embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating a noise immune gradiometer split-shield coil having additional electrical shielding, according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG.9 (prior art) is a diagram illustrating a conventional coil having conventional Faraday shielding.
- FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating a noise immune gradiometer split-shield coil, according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- a transmission line 50 such as a coaxial cable, has a conductor 52 and a shield 54.
- Conductor 52 is electrically continuous through transmission line 50. That is, current flows through conductor 52.
- conductor 52 can be broken or split, as long as the break or split is electrically connected back together via, for example, a capacitor.
- Shield 54 is split at a position 56 to cause the coil to be electrically balanced.
- split refers to shield 54 being physically split and electrically reconnected, preferably with a capacitor.
- the split in shield 54 defines first and second sections 58 and 60 in series, and which together form a magnetic field gradiometer having a geometry which reduces magnetic field noise pick-up. Therefore, generally, first and second sections 58 and 60 create magnetic fields in the opposite sense. First and second sections 58 and 60 together have a geometric configuration so that a uniform magnetic field through the coil induces currents in each section with the sum of those currents being substantially less than the current flowing in either section.
- a uniform magnetic field through the coil could be, for example, that caused by radio signals emitted by distant radio stations.
- the sum of the currents in first and second sections 58 and 60 is less than 20% of the current flowing in either section, and is more preferably less than 10% of the current flowing in either section.
- FIG. 5 also illustrates a tuning capacitance C, a matching capacitance C, an additional tuning capacitance C". and a terminating impedance Z. These capacitors can be fixed or variable.
- Each of first and second sections 58 and 60 acts as an individual coil whose geometry is optimized for generating and detecting magnetic fields in a volume of interest. In some applications, such a coil could simply be a straight conductor, or a coil of the meanderline design. However, more typically, each of first and second sections 58 and 60 forms a loop which may be in the shape of a circle, an oval, a rectangle, or a square. Many such loop geometries are possible and are not limited to the recited list, nor are they required to be planar . Each loop can have a plurality of turns, and the present invention is not intended to be limited to loops having any specific number of turns. However, in many applications, it would be desirable to have a low number of turns to thereby provide a relatively high Q.
- Transmission line 50 can be any type of transmission line, such as, for example, coaxial cable, stripline, or a twin lead type. Thus, the present invention is not intended to be limited to any specific type of transmission line.
- first and second sections 58 and 60 have a common axis 61. Therefore, transmission line 50 is configured as an "axial" gradiometer. However, it is not necessary for first and second sections 58 and 60 to share a common axis. For example, instead of having a common axis, first and second sections 58 and 60 can be in the same plane, to thereby form a "planar" gradiometer.
- the noise pick-up of one section should be 180° out of phase with the noise pick-up of the other section, so that noise is canceled while still enabling a signal to be observed.
- shield 54 is shown as being split in only one place. In some applications, it may be possible to split shield 54 in more than one place. This may cause phase shifts, which may be useful. However, the splits should be positioned to cause the coil to be electrically balanced.
- the coil in FIG. 5 significantly reduces environmental noise pick-up by reducing both electric field noise pick-up and magnetic field noise pick-up. More specifically, the split in shield 54 causes the coil to be electrically balanced, thereby reducing electric field noise pick-up.
- the geometric configuration of first and second sections 58 and 59 formed by transmission line 50 causes the coil to be magnetically balanced, thereby reducing magnetic field noise pick-up. In effect, the coil is insensitive to uniform magnetic and electric fields, but is sensitive to gradients of magnetic fields.
- the coil in FIG. 5 combines the geometrically determined electrical balance of a Stensgaard split shield resonator coil (which reduces electrical field noise pick-up) with a magnetic field gradiometer approach (which reduces magnetic field noise pick-up).
- the noise level measured in the laboratory (using a sensitive NQR spectrometer) by the inventors of the present invention without external RF shielding was found to be only about 1 to 2 dB larger than the noise with highly effective external shielding.
- the magnetic resonance signals could be produced and detected using this coil with only a slightly reduced sensitivity compared to a more traditional coil of the same diameter. The reduction in the noise level more than compensates for the loss in sensitivity when the coil is used without electrical shielding.
- first and second conducting sections 58 and 60 electrically connected to minimize noise pick-up during detection, it may be advantageous in some circumstances to break (or otherwise modify) the connection between first and second sections 58 and 60 during the
- FIG.6 is a diagram illustrating the use of the coil to transmit, according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- a switch SW when transmitting, a switch SW is closed to disconnect first section 58. and a transmitter TX provides a signal to second section 60.
- a switch can be used to disconnect second section 60, while a transmitter provides a signal to first section 58. Therefore, switch SW and transmitter TX together form a transmit mechanism which grounds the shield of one of the sections at the split, and provides a signal to the other section, to use the coil to transmit.
- FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating the use of the coil to transmit, according to an additional embodiment of the present invention.
- capacitors Cl and C2 are across the split in shield 54.
- a transmitter TX provides a signal to a point between capacitors Cl and C2. Therefore, capacitors Cl and C2 and transmitter TX form a transmit mechanism which provides a signal across the split, to use the coil to transmit.
- FIGS 6 and 7 Discrete switches are indicated in FIGS 6 and 7, however note that those switches in FIGS. 6 and 7 can be implemented with crossed diodes, requiring no external control signals.
- a transmit mechanism in which the coil in FIG. 5 can be used to both transmit and receive.
- FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating the noise immune gradiometer split-shield coil in FIG. 5, having additional electrical shielding, according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- a plurality of electrically conducting strips 62 are electrically connected to first section 58, and a plurality of electrically conducting strips 64 are electrically connected to second section 60, to provide additional electrical shielding.
- Electrically conducting strips 62 and 64 should be disposed to provide an appropriate additional electrical shielding effect. Therefore, in FIG. 8, electrically conducting strips 62 are directed "downward" from first section 58, and electrically conducting strips 64 are directed "upward” from second section 60, so that the strips lie along the surface of a cylinder defined by the two sections, and so the electrically conducting strips 62 and 64 are interdigitated.
- the orientation of electrically conducting strips 62 and 64 can easily be determined by a person of skill in the art. Electrically conducting strips 62 and 64 can be, for example, copper-clad PC board soldered to shield 54.
- FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating a conventional coil having conventional
- a metal wire 70 forms a closed loop.
- Metal strips 72 are electrically connected to wire 70.
- Wire 70 with metal strips 72 is then placed inside a coil 74 made of transmission line. Therefore, wire 70 and metal strips 72 form a Faraday shielding device which provide Faraday shielding for coil 74. Therefore, with additional electrical shielding according to the present invention as illustrated in FIG. 8, electrically conducting strips are attached to the coil to provide additional electrical shielding.
- conducting strips are not attached to the coil, but instead are attached to a metal wire placed inside of the coil.
- a coil is virtually immune from common environmental noise sources, both electrical and magnetic, and hence eliminates the necessity of providing external RF shielding.
- This will have utility for NQR detection of explosives and perhaps obviate the need for external RF shielding in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) applications.
- embodiments of the present invention can be applied to the use of NQR to the detection of nitrogenous or chlorine-containing explosives or narcotics carried in luggage, mail, small cargo, on a person, or buried in the ground. More generally, the above embodiments of the present invention can be used for improved detection of any material which has a magnetic resonance response that is unique compared to its surroundings.
- the above embodiments of the present invention are applicable to many different areas of resonance signal detection.
- the above embodiments of the present invention are applicable to NMR, NQR, MRI, broad line NMR studies such as stray field imaging of materials and possibly to pulsed Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) spectrometers using high-Q cavities. Therefore, for example, the embodiments of the present invention are applicable to the detection of NMR resonance signals, NQR resonance signals and EPR resonance signals.
- NQR detection systems for the detection of explosives .and narcotics, and various NQR concepts, are disclosed, for example, in U.S. patent titled "DETECTION OF EXPLOSIVE AND
- NARCOTICS BY LOW POWER LARGE SAMPLE VOLUME NUCLEAR QUADRUPOLE RESONANCE (NQR)", U.S. patent number 5,233,300; U.S. patent titled “REMOVING THE EFFECTS OF ACOUSTIC RINGING AND REDUCING TEMPERATURE EFFECTS IN THE DETECTION OF EXPLOSIVES BY NQR", U.S. patent number 5,365,171; U.S. patent titled “DETECTION OF EXPLOSIVES BY NUCLEAR QUADRUPOLE RESONANCE", U.S. patent number 5,206,592; and U.S.
- a coil according to the above embodiments of the present invention may be specifically useful as a transmitter coil and/or a receiver coil in MRI, NMR, NQR and EPR near electrically conducting media, as described in more detail below.
- a coil according to the above embodiments of the present invention for which the magnetic field falls off even more rapidly than that of a simple circular loop surface coil, will likely be less sensitive to electrical loss from deep within the sample. While the signal from the coil according to the above embodiments of the present invention is reduced from that of a conventional surface coil, the loss contributions in the coil according to the above embodiments of the present invention will be even less, so that the overall efficiency (in terms of SNR) of such a coil will be better than that of a conventional surface coil for cases where measurements are made near a conducting body.
- a similar analysis should hold for a transmitter coil. More specifically, electrical loading of the sample decreases the Q of the transmitter coil and, in this case, increases the RF power required to create an RF magnetic field of a given magnitude. Therefore, it is likely that a transmitter coil according to the above embodiments of the present invention will also be advantageous.
- a common coil would typically be used as both a receiver coil and a transmitter coil, though this is not essential. In MRI separate coils would typically be used.
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