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Design and Fabrication of Sensor Probe and Active Noise Reduction Circuit for SQUID MCG System in Magnetically Unshielded Environment
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M.Sc. Thesis
Sharif University of Technology
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Fardmanesh, Mehdi
(Supervisor)
Abstract
Characterization of local magnetic activity of the heart muscles is named magnetocardiography (MCG), which measures magnetic field generated by electrical activity around heart. RF SQUID sensors are appropriate choice for measuring magnetic activity of the heart muscles. Because squid detects weak signals as low as fTesla, while heart magnetic field is near 50 pt which is one millionth of earth magnetic field and thousands of time weaker than the environment noise. One of the problems of mcg system is its urgency to shielding of unwanted magnetic field. In this project design of holders and resonators for well coupled input coil with RF SQUID is improved. As a result, at the first stage...
Design and Fabrication of an Integrated Superconducting Resonator/Flux Concentrator for rf SQUID Magnetometer
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Fardmanesh, Mahdi (Supervisor)
Abstract
Ultra-sensitive magnetometers based on Radio Frequency Superconducting Quantum Interference Device (rf SQUID), have wide applications in Non-destructive Evaluation (NDE), geophysical measurements and biomagnetic measurements, especially in magnetocardiography (MCG) systems. A superconducting module coupled to rf SQUID is designed to provide a resonance frequency in GHz range (according to the electronic system frequency), as well as concentrating the magnetic flux in the effective area of SQUID. The signal can be measured through a port pumping AC power to the module. The resonator has been also implemented by lumped element tank circuits, but the quality factor of these circuits are usually...
Design and Optimization of HTS SQUID based Magnetocardiography using Active Shield
, Ph.D. Dissertation Sharif University of Technology ; Fardmanesh, Mehdi (Supervisor)
Abstract
In this work, we report on a developed single-channel high-Tc SQUID based MCG system for operation in unshielded environment. In brief, our system consists of a liquid Nitrogen Dewar and two high-Tc rf-SQUID capsuled in a holding probe,which is connected via coaxial cables to our multichannel rf-SQUID readout electronics.The rf-SQUIDs were patterned from about 200 nm△10 nm thick YBCO films sputtered on 1 mm thick LaAlO3 substrates. The holding probe integrates rf-SQUIDs, LC resonant circuits, and shielding coils. We have investigated the effects of the lumped element tank circuit resonator parameters on the rf-SQUID signal characteristics and based on the simulation and experimental...