Measurement of electric fields due to time-varying magnetic field gradients using dipole probes

The operation of dipole probes in measuring electric fields in conductive media exposed to temporally varying magnetic fields is discussed. The potential measured by the probe can be thought of as originating from two contributions to the electric field, namely the gradient of the scalar electric potential and the temporal derivative of the magnetic vector potential. Using this analysis, it is shown that the exact form of the wire paths employed when using electric field probes to measure the effects of temporally varying magnetic fields is very important and this prediction is verified via simple experiments carried out using different probe geometries in a cylindrical sample exposed to a temporally varying, uniform magnetic field. Extending this work, a dipole probe has been used to measure the electric field induced in a cylindrical sample by gradient coils as used in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Analytic solutions for the electric field in an infinite cylinder are verified by comparison with experimental measurements. Deviations from the analytic solutions of the electric field for the x-gradient coil due to the finite length of the sample cylinder are also demonstrated.

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