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Hybrid combined superconducting and resistive electromagnets with even higher field strength of 45 T dc and 100 T pulsed, are available for material research, of course with smaller free bore diameters. Human whole-body MRI systems currently operate up to 10.5 T. Preclinical instruments range from small-bore animal systems with typically 600–800 MHz (14.1–18.8 T) up to 900 MHz (21 T) at 1.9 K. A new 1.2 GHz system (28 T) at 1.9 K, operating in persistent mode but using a combination of low and high temperature multi-filament superconductors is to be released. Currently, cutting-edge analytical NMR systems are available at proton frequencies up to 1 GHz (23.5 T) based on Nb 3Sn at 1.9 K. By the end of the 1970s, first low-field resistive magnets big enough to accommodate humans were developed and superconducting whole-body systems followed. This was followed by stronger and more stable (Nb-Ti based) superconducting magnet technology typically implemented first for small-bore systems in analytical chemistry, biochemistry and structural biology, and eventually allowing larger horizontal-bore magnets with diameters large enough to fit small laboratory animals. Initially, resistive electromagnets with small pole distances, or sample volumes, and field strengths up to 2.35 T (or 100 MHz 1H frequency) were used in applications in physics, chemistry, and material science. Further challenges were larger magnet bores to accommodate small animals and eventually humans. Starting with post-war developments in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) a race for stronger and stronger magnetic fields has begun in the 1950s to overcome the inherently low sensitivity of this promising method. Keating (former Australian Prime Minister) “ History, of course, is difficult to write, if for no other reason, than that it has so many players and so many authors.” – P. Perutz Laboratories, Department of Structural and Computational Biology, Center for Molecular Biology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
2High-field MR Center, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
1Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.Ewald Moser 1,2 * Elmar Laistler 1,2 Franz Schmitt 3 Georg Kontaxis 4
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