The Cardiff Mk2b MIT head array: optimising the coil configuration
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A hemispherical MIT helmet coil array for imaging cerebral haemorrhage has been designed using a realistic 12-tissue finite-difference model of the head including a large peripheral haemorrhage (volume 49 ml). The coil array was first optimised by reaching a compromise between the quality of the reconstructed images and the financial cost of the digital detection system. The practical implementation of the helmet is partially complete.
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