Wednesday, November 09, 2005

ASPeCT Magnet Technologies Ltd

A company that has recently been developing cutting edge permanent magnet systems is ASPeCT Magnet Technologies who are developing MRI and NMR magnets for industrial applications. The magnets are fully shielded permanent magnets of varying bore size that enable fully shimmed 60 MHz process FT-NMR systems as well as industrial and medical MRI. Our interest is obviously in their NMR magnets but there also possibilities developing to use gradient shimming to allow spatially specific high resolution spectra to be obtained from objects being imaged….eg. water/sugar NMR spectra obtained from citrus fruits. The ASPeCT website contains 2 presentations of the various technologies under development.