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Quantifying the Relative Thickness of Conductive Ferromagnetic Materials Using Detector Coil-Based Pulsed Eddy Current Sensors
Published on: January 16, 2020
Measurement of nonuniform current density by magnetic resonance
G C Scott1, M G Joy, R L Armstrong
1Dept. of Electr. Eng., Toronto Univ., Ont.
Abstract:
A noninvasive tissue current measurement technique and its use in measuring a nonuniform current density are described. This current density image is created by measuring the magnetic field arising from these currents and taking its curl. These magnetic fields are proportional to the phase component of a complex magnetic resonance image. Measurements of all three components of a quasistatic nonuniform current density in a phantom are described. Expected current density calculations from a numerical solution for the magnetic field which was created by the phantom are presented for comparison. The results of a numerical simulation of the experiment, which used this field solution and which included the effects of slice selection and sampling, are also presented. The experimental and simulated results are quantitatively compared. It is concluded that the principle source of systematic error was the finite slice thickness, which causes blurring of boundaries.
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