Optimal design of a system for large in vivo experiments on the effects of 50-Hz magnetic fields

Author

Montanari, Ivan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Sci. & Methods for Eng., Univ. of Modena & Reggio Emilia, Italy

Volume

39

Issue

3

fYear

2003

fDate

5/1/2003 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1823

Lastpage

1826

Abstract

This paper describes toroids for a large in vivo experiment on the effects of the magnetic field produced by electric power systems. The toroids are designed to be housed in structures that comply with the experimental protocol requirements and with the experiment specifications. The toroids were designed by using the integral approach for field and vector potential computation and a deterministic approach based on a successive quadratic programming algorithm for their optimization. The paper presents and discusses the results.

Keywords

biological effects of fields; coils; magnetic field effects; magnetic fields; quadratic programming; 50 Hz; VLF magnetic fields; electric power systems; field computation; health effects; large in vivo experiments; optimal system design; optimization methods; successive quadratic programming algorithm; toroids; vector potential computation; Algorithm design and analysis; Animals; Design optimization; Frequency; In vivo; Optimization methods; Protocols; Quadratic programming; Rats; Toroidal magnetic fields;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9464

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TMAG.2003.809841

Filename

1198378