System Matrix Recording and Phantom Measurements with a Single-Sided Magnetic Particle Imaging Device

Author

Grafe, Ksenija ; Bringout, Gael ; Graeser, Matthias ; Sattel, Timo F. ; Buzug, Thorsten M.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Med. Eng., Univ. of Lubeck, Lubeck, Germany

Volume

51

Issue

2

fYear

2015

fDate

Feb. 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

Magnetic particle imaging (MPI) is a new imaging method, which uses superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles as tracer material. Due to their tube-like design, most MPI devices have limited patient access. In this paper, an improved oil-cooled single-sided MPI device is presented that has the advantage that all coils, which are generating the magnetic fields or receiving the particle signal, are coplanar and on one side of the patient only. In consequence, the object, which will be scanned, is not limited in size. In this paper, a first 1-D image recorded with the new device is presented.

Keywords

biomedical imaging; iron compounds; magnetic particles; nanomagnetics; nanoparticles; phantoms; 1D image; Fe₂O₃; improved oil-cooled single-sided magnetic particle imaging device; magnetic fields; particle signal; phantom measurements; superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles; system matrix recording; tracer material; tube-like design; Coils; Image reconstruction; Magnetic particles; Magnetic resonance imaging; Particle measurements; Phantoms; 1-D imaging; field-free point (FFP); magnetic particle imaging (MPI); reconstruction; single-sided MPI device;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9464

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TMAG.2014.2330371

Filename

7067521