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dwelting / pyBirdcagebuilder

Program to calculate the ideal capacitor values for birdcage coil designs
MIT License
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Elliptical polarization birdcage coils #1

Open jaystock opened 1 year ago

jaystock commented 1 year ago

Hi, thank you for providing this great Python Birdcage Builder resource! I was wondering if you had any plans to add elliptical birdcage coil capability to the Python app, similar to the original Birdcage Builder from Penn State. Thanks!

dwelting commented 1 year ago

The math for the elliptical birdcage is already implemented in the code, however it's not tested and the GUI is not yet prepared for it.

I will implement the elliptical birdcage and make a GUI for it, but I will need to add a disclaimer that it is still untested since the original Birdcagebuilder is unreachable nowadays so verifying the results will be difficult. If someone wants to double check the math code I'll be happy to implement any improvements they have.

And if someone has a way to run the original (elliptical) Birdcagebuilder please let me know.

dwelting commented 1 year ago

A test version of the birdcagebuilder with elliptical mode support has been added as a separate branch in the repository. In the options menu in the program you can switch between circular and elliptical mode. For now only the short-axis mode is available.

Please report back with any problems you might have.