التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Magnetic induction spectroscopy (MIS)—probe design for cervical tissue measurements. |
| المؤلفون: |
Jau-Yi Wang, Timothy Healey, Anthony Barker, Brian Brown, Chris Monk, Dilly Anumba |
| المصدر: |
Physiological Measurement; May2017, Vol. 38 Issue 5, p1-1, 1p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
GRAVIMETERS (Geophysical instruments), ELECTROMAGNETIC induction, BIOELECTRIC impedance, MAGNETIC shielding, FERRITES |
| مستخلص: |
Objective: Gradiometers have the advantage of increasing measuring sensitivity, which is particularly useful in magnetic induction spectroscopy (MIS) for bio-impedance measurements. Traditional gradiometers use a pair of field sensing coils equally distant and on opposite sides of a drive coil, which provides high immunity to interference. In this paper, a ferrite-cored coaxial gradiometer probe of 29 mm diameter has been developed for measuring the impedance spectra of cervical tissues in vivo. Approach: It consists of a ferrite rod with outer ferrite confinement screening in order to eliminate the signals from surrounding tissue. The magnetic screening efficiency was compared with an air-cored gradiometer probe. For both gradiometer probes, a drive coil and two sensing coils were wound on a borosilicate glass former aligned coaxially with two sensing coils equidistant from the drive coil. The signal sensitivity of those two MIS gradiometers has been measured using saline samples with a conductivity range between 0.1 and 1.1 S m−1. Finite element methods using COMSOL Multiphysics have been used to simulate the distribution of sensitivity to conductivity over the face of each probe and with depth. Main Results: The ferrite-cored probe has a sensitivity confined to the volume defined by the gap between the ferrite core and outer tube of ferrite while the air-cored probe without any magnetic shielding had a wide sensitivity over the face and the side of the probe. Four saline samples and one of distilled water with conductivities from 0.1 to 1.1 S m−1 have been used to make conductivity measurements at frequencies of 50 kHz, 100 kHz, and 300 kHz. The measurement accuracy of the air-cored MIS probe was 0.09 S m−1 at 50 kHz, improving to 0.05 S m−1 at 300 kHz. For the ferrite-cored MIS probe, the measurement accuracy was 0.28 S m−1 at 50 kHz, improving to 0.04 S m−1 at 300 kHz. Significance:In vivo measurements on human hand have been performed using both types of gradiometers and the conductivity is consistent with reported data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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