When a superconducting magnet is exposed to time-varying, non-symmetrical t
ransverse and parallel fields, the balanced bridge for quench detection is
ineffective. To make quench detection possible, the inductive voltage must
be reduced, or canceled, to a level less than the resistive voltage due to
quench. The internal cowound voltage sensors in the cable cross-section as
the primary mechanism to cancel the inductive noise are analyzed and tested
in this research. The signal to noise ratio under a variety of conditions
with different sensor locations, field sweeping rates and quenched lengths
are improved to a factor of 1000 or more by using cowound voltage sensors.