Abstract
Magnetoacoustic tomography with magnetic induction (MAT-MI) is an imaging technique under development to achieve imaging of electrical impedance contrast in biological tissues with spatial resolution close to ultrasound imaging. However, previously reported MAT-MI experimental results are obtained either from low salinity gel phantoms, or from normal animal tissue samples. In this study, we report the experimental study on the performance of the MAT-MI imaging method for imaging in vitro human liver tumor tissue. The present promising experimental results suggest the feasibility of MAT-MI to image electrical impedance contrast between the cancerous tissue and its surrounding normal tissues.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 023703 |
Journal | Applied Physics Letters |
Volume | 98 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 10 2011 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported in part by NIH Grant No. R21EB006070 and NSF Grant No. BES-0602957.