Michael Bock1, Thomas Lottner1, and Ali Caglar Özen1,2
1Radiology - Medical Physics, University Medical Center, Medical Faculty, University Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, 2German Consortium for Translational Cancer Research (DKTK), Freiburg, Germany
1Radiology - Medical Physics, University Medical Center, Medical Faculty, University Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, 2German Consortium for Translational Cancer Research (DKTK), Freiburg, Germany
Energy harvesting from MRI gradients can provide power levels on the order of a kilowatt.
Figure 1: Left:
The induction coil (yellow) is being connected to a modified drip coffee
machine on the patient table of a 3T MRI system. (Right) Coffee was ready at
the rear end of the magnet about 5 min after the start of a pulse sequence with
an oscillating z-gradient field.