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Published on: August 1, 2017
Energy Transform and Initial Acoustic Pressure Distribution in Microwave-induced Thermoacoustic Tomography
Jing Yan1, Chunjing Tao, Shizeng Wu
1Bioelectromagnetics Lab.,Institute of Electrical Eng., Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100080, China (phone: +86-10-62552364; fax: +86-10-62558093;
Abstract:
A study of Microwave-induced Thermoacoustic Tomography is presented in this paper. Microwaves illuminate biological tissues to generate acoustic waves by thermoelastic expansion when electromagnetic energy was absorbed by human tissues. The generated acoustic waves carry information about different electromagnetic properties of different tissues which will be collected and processed to reconstruct human cross section image. In this paper, digital electromagnetic human body model with 1cm resolution was founded according to algorithm requirements. Firstly we analyzed the transform and interrelation among electromagnetic energy, heat energy and acoustic energy. On the basis of established human model: (1) we calculated initial acoustic pressure distribution in cross section image under plane microwave radiation with different frequency. It shows that microwave absorption properties and initial acoustic pressure were different with the change of frequency; (2) using single pulse to illuminate human model, initial acoustic pressure maps of thorax cross section at different time steps were analyzed. These results provided a research basis for further study and calculation of acoustic pressure in microwave-induced thermoacoustic tomography.
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