Conveners
C2Po1E - Medical and Biological Applications
- Marcel ter Brake (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
- Kathleen Amm (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
The new Cryogenic Flux Capacitor (CFC) technology employs nano-porous aerogel composites to store large quantities of fluid molecules in a physisorbed solid-state condition at moderate pressures and cryogenic temperatures. By its design architecture, a CFC device can be “charged” and “discharged” quickly and on-demand according to standby/usage requirements. One of three main application areas...
A mobile Magneto encephalography (MEG) of Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd. (SHI) uses a high temperature superconducting magnetic shield, Superconductor-Normal-metal-Superconductor (SNS) type Superconducting Quantum Interface Device (SQUID) sensors, and they are cooled by a zero boil-off cooling system. The zero boil-off cooling system consists of a circulating cooled helium gas system for...
We performed magnetic, mechanical, and thermal modeling of a 3T, actively shielded, conduction-cooled, whole-body MRI magnet. The design had a magnet length and conductor length comparable to NbTi helium-bath-cooled, 3 T designs. The design had a magnetic field homogeneity better than 10 ppm within a DSV of 49 cm. A new class of MgB2 strand especially designed for MRI applications was...
Cryo-ablation is a breast cancer treatment method that utilizes a small probe in precise locations within the body to freeze and destroy unwanted cancer tissue. Recently there has been a growing interest in combining cryo-ablation with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The challenge of combining these two technologies is that MRI devices require the absence of metals, and traditional heat...
In order to further maintain the quality of sea-fish after harvest, it is necessary to figure out the heat transfer law during its cryogenic freezing and cryopreservation process (below -40℃). There is little literature to discuss thermo-physical properties of food in cryogenic temperature. In this paper, the thermo-physical properties of sea-fish were measured experimentally. A special cold...
Golden Pomfret is tender, delicious and rich in nutrition, but is also apt to deteriorate. Cryogenic quick freezing technology is applied to offer a fast freezing rate to maintain the quality of Golden Pomfret. The freezing rate depends on the freezing process temperature and gas flow rate in the cryogenic freezer. In order to achieve a sufficiently high freezing rate, numerical calculation...
