Table 1.
List of Variables
| Variable | Explanation |
|---|---|
| E1 | Coil element 1 |
| S1 | Switch 1 |
| Amp1 | Amplifier 1 |
| p12 | Terminal 2 of coil element E1 |
| NA | Number of amplifiers |
| NC | Number of coil elements |
| NF | Number of fields |
| ND | Number of different (random) configurations |
| NR | Number of repetitions (optimization algorithm runs) |
| Tk | Target field k |
| Ck | Configuration k |
| X, Y | Orderings |
| G(Ck, X) | General adjacency matrix for a configuration Ck and an ordering X |
| A(Ck, X) | Adjacency matrix for the connections between coil element terminals |
| B(Ck, Y) | Adjacency matrix for the connections between coil element terminals and amplifier terminals |
| Σ(X, G) | Sum of adjacency matrices |
| σi,j(X, G) | Element (i, j) of sum of adjacency matrices Σ(X, G) |
| s(Σ(X, G)) | Number of switches for Σ(X, G) |
| Ti | Temperature at iteration i (Simulated Annealing) |