Hi
I would probably include few lines of statement in the pulse program, allowing
it to abort the system running if it exceeds the duty cyle or decoupling power or even pulse length.
Usually, there is a "C " statement in the Varian MRI pulse program,
for example
if (tDELTA > tDELTAmax) {
abort_message("%s: tDELTA too large for te. Max tDELTA= %f ms. Minte= % f ms",
seqfil,tDELTAmax*1e3,temin*1e3);
I hope, This will help.
Thanks
Khan Hekmatyar
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Shahryar K Hekmatyar, Ph.D.,
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Indiana University School of Medicine
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Dear Friends
I am posing the following questions specifically with Bruker Avance
(DMX, DPX, DRX, AV, etc..) systems in mind.
Can you outline the strategies you follow in your respective labs,
to avoid users driving too much power into the probes and damaging them ?
Specifically, I would like to ask :
* How do you limit the CW power being too high (say in a decoupling situation ) ?
* How do you make sure that the users do not accidentally use "seconds"
for pulse durations instead of "microseconds". ( To my knowledge, in
XWINNMR software, pulses p0-p31 have a default unit of 'microseconds'.)
Recently I had the X-coil of a BBO probe gutted down by excessive
pulse length or power or a combination thereof, on a AV300 system. It
was an expensive repair to replace the coil and some capacitors inside
the probe. I want to minize the possibility of such a nightmare recurring.
I tried as much as I could to do a forensic analysis of the datasets
that were collected prior to the accident but could not find any tracks.
Any input would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you very much, as always.
Rajan
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Univeristy of Washington
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Received on Wed Jul 06 2005 - 12:37:58 MST