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Q-spoiling is the process of decoupling an MRI receive coil to protect the equipment and patient. Conventionally, Q-spoiling is performed using a PIN diode switch that draws significant current. In this work, a Q-spoiling technique using a depletion-mode Gallium Nitride HEMT device was developed for coil detuning at both 1.5 T and 3 T MRI. The circuits with conventional PIN diode Q-spoiling and the...
In the Joule Balance at the National Institute of Metrology (NIM), the dynamic measurement during the coil movement is avoided. But for this method a rather large current in the primary coil is needed to generate the necessary magnetic field in the force weighing phase. Thus the coil heating becomes an obvious uncertainty contribution. To solve this problem, a new coil system, in which the ferromagnetic...
The Joule balance method to measure the Planck constant and redefine the Kilogram ultimately has been going on at the National Institute of Metrology of China (NIM) since 2007. The first prototype has been built to check the feasibility of the principle. In 2012, the relative uncertainty of the plank constant measurement result is at 10−5 level. Self-heating of the coils, swing of the coil, etc.,...
The Joule Balance method, for the same purpose but different from the Watt Balance method, is going on at NIM for several years. The first measurement result of the Planck constant h is 6.6261(5)×10−34Js with a measurement uncertainty of 7.7 × 10−5. The further plan for improvement is discussed.
The precise measurement of Planck Constant h to establish a kind of quantum mass standard is an important but very difficult work. The Joule Balance method, for the same purpose but different from Watt Balance method, is going on in NIM for three years. The principle and progress are described.
Traditionally, the most precise way to get the mutual inductance value is by a calculable mutual inductor. Here a new approach of measuring the mutual inductance at low frequency with compensation method is described. The mutual inductance is traced to the value of the frequency and resistance directly. The measurement uncertainty is 0.1 ppm and could be improved further.
This paper presents the configuration of a prototype induction cooker. Effective control scheme is incorporated in the voltage-fed H-bridge series resonant converter, which is based on an auto-frequency tracking strategy. The proposed control strategy ensures stable operation characteristics of overall converter system and ZVS (zero voltage switching) operation as well as power regulation. The operation...
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