Abstract
An experimental feasibility study was conducted on magnetoacoustic tomography with magnetic induction (MAT-MI). It is demonstrated that the two-dimensional MAT-MI system can detect and image the boundaries between regions of different electrical conductivities with high spatial resolution. Utilizing a magnetic stimulation coil, MAT-MI evokes magnetically induced eddy current in an object which is placed in a static magnetic field. Because of the existence of Lorenz forces, the eddy current in turn causes acoustic vibrations, which are measured around the object in order to reconstruct the electrical impedance distribution of the object. The present experimental results from the saline and gel phantoms are promising and suggest the merits of MAT-MI in imaging electrical impedance of biological tissue with high spatial resolution.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Article number | 066112 |
| Journal | Journal of Applied Physics |
| Volume | 99 |
| Issue number | 6 |
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| State | Published - 2006 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported in part by NIH RO1EB00178, NSF-BES-0411898, and NSF-BES-0411480 to one of the authors (B.H.), and the Biomedical Engineering Institute of the University of Minnesota.