Abstract
Magnetoacoustic tomography with magnetic induction (MAT-MI) is a recently introduced imaging modality for noninvasive electrical impedance imaging, with ultrasound imaging resolution and a contrast reflecting the electrical conductivity properties of tissues. However, previous MAT-MI systems can only image samples that are much more conductive than real human or animal tissues. To image real biological tissue samples, a large-current-carrying coil that can give stronger magnetic stimulations and stronger MAT-MI acoustic signals is employed in this study. The conductivity values of all the tissue samples employed in this study are also directly measured using a well calibrated four-electrode system. The experimental results demonstrated the feasibility to image biological tissues with electrical conductivity contrast below 1.0 S/m using the MAT-MI technique with safe level of electromagnetic energy applied to tissue samples.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Article number | 103705 |
| Journal | Applied Physics Letters |
| Volume | 97 |
| Issue number | 10 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Sep 6 2010 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The authors are grateful to Leo Mariappan for useful discussions on the phantom studies. This work was supported in part by NIH Grant No. R21EB006070, NSF Grant No. BES-0602957, NIH Grant Nos. RO1EB007920, RO1HL080093, and RO1EB006433.