Apparatus for cooling a superconducting magnet and a method for operation
OwnerThomas Beckinventor
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Abstract
A magnet control system for a superconducting field magnet of a magnetic resonance tomography system, the magnetic resonance tomography system, and a method for operation is provided. Availability of a resource for cooling the superconducting magnet is detected by the magnet control system, a first operating mode is set depending on availability, and the superconducting field magnet is cooled according to the first operating mode. No image acquisition is performed by the magnetic resonance tomography system.
Claims9
A magnet control system for a superconducting field magnet of a magnetic resonance tomography system, the magnet control system comprising:
- a processor configured to set a first operating mode and a second operating mode of the superconducting field magnet,
- wherein the first operating mode is an operating mode with reduced cooling resource consumption, and the second operating mode is an operating mode with improved magnetic field quality for magnetic resonance imaging.
A magnetic resonance tomography system comprising:
- a gradient coil;
- and
- a magnet control system for a superconducting field magnet of the magnetic resonance tomography system, the magnet control system comprising:
- a processor configured to set a first operating mode and a second operating mode of the superconducting field magnet,
- wherein the first operating mode is an operating mode with reduced cooling resource consumption, and the second operating mode is an operating mode with improved magnetic field quality for magnetic resonance imaging, and
- wherein the magnet control system and the magnetic resonance tomography system are configured to use the gradient coil as a heat sink for cooling the superconducting field magnet in the first operating mode.
A method for operating a magnetic resonance tomography system with a magnet control system for a superconducting field magnet of the magnetic resonance tomography system, the magnet control system comprising a processor configured to set a first operating mode and a second operating mode of the superconducting field magnet, wherein the first operating mode is an operating mode with reduced cooling resource consumption, and the second operating mode is an operating mode with improved magnetic field quality for magnetic resonance imaging, the method comprising:
- detecting availability of a resource for cooling the superconducting field magnet by the magnet control system;
- setting the first operating mode depending on the availability;
- and
- cooling the superconducting field magnet according to the first operating mode,
- wherein no image acquisition is performed by the magnetic resonance tomography system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.