2012-03-21
Preliminary Results on Brain Monitoring of Meningitis Using 16 Channels Magnetic Induction Tomography Measurement System
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Progress In Electromagnetics Research M, Vol. 24, 57-68, 2012
Abstract
Magnetic induction tomography (MIT) is a contactless measurement technique of biological tissue conductivity. In this study, the differential induced voltage equations are shown in single layer and n layers models. The paper describes a 16 channels MIT measurement system with working frequency of 1MHz, which can image the plan of low conductivity object. According to physical experiments, the sensitivity is about 0.29°/S·m-1, and the maximum shift of the phase noise is 0.08°. Some preliminary clinical experiments were done, including 2 cases of meningitis and 5 cases of brain normal patients. The comparison of all the measured values shows that all values are smaller than 1.7° in the brain normal cases, but the values of meningitis cases are more than 2°, higher than those of brain normal patients. Therefore, the MIT measurement system has great application prospect in dynamically monitoring the brain diseases.
Citation
Hai Jun Luo, Wei He, Zhang Xu, and Li Liu, "Preliminary Results on Brain Monitoring of Meningitis Using 16 Channels Magnetic Induction Tomography Measurement System," Progress In Electromagnetics Research M, Vol. 24, 57-68, 2012.
doi:10.2528/PIERM12021406
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