• DocumentCode
    545113
  • Title

    Magnetic imaging of conductivity

  • Author

    Ahlfors, Seppo ; Ilmoniemi, Risto

  • Author_Institution
    Low Temperature Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology, 02150 Espoo, Finland
  • Volume
    5
  • fYear
    1992
  • fDate
    Oct. 29 1992-Nov. 1 1992
  • Firstpage
    1717
  • Lastpage
    1718
  • Abstract
    The conductivity distribution of an object can be estimated by injecting current with surface electrodes and by measuring the magnetic field thus generated. We call this method magnetic impedance tomography (MIT). A model experiment demonstrates how conductivity variations can be determined using the source estimation techniques of biomagnetism. Better knowledge of conductivity distributions obtained with MIT may help improve the accuracy of locating brain activity with magnetoencephalography (MEG) or electroencephalography (EEG).
  • Keywords
    Biomedical measurements; Brain modeling;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1992 14th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Paris, France
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-0785-2
  • Electronic_ISBN
    0-7803-0816-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IEMBS.1992.5762007
  • Filename
    5762007