The installation of a commercial resistive NMR imager

It has been demonstrated that a relatively low-cost resistive NMR imager can be installed in a normal hospital environment without many major or expensive modifications. The magnet can be adjusted to give adequate uniformity and there is sufficient RF shielding to give good quality clinical images (Fig. 3). The fringe field of the magnet of this system, which operates at the lowest field strength of any commercial NMR imager, does not present a problem to imaging unit staff (NRPB, 1984). The long term reliability and detailed specifications with regard to image quality have yet to be determined. These will be determined whilst the imager is being used for clinical studies as part of the national clinical evaluation of NMR imaging supported by the Medical Research Council.