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http://dx.doi.org/10.9718/JBER.2009.30.4.333

Development of MR Compatible Coaxial-slot Antenna for Microwave Hyperthermia  

Kim, T.H. (Department of Biomedical Engineering, Inje University)
Chun, S.I. (Department of Biomedical Engineering, Inje University)
Han, Y.H. (Department of Biomedical Engineering, Inje University)
Kim, D.H. (Department of Biomedical Engineering, Inje University)
Mun, C.W. (Department of Biomedical Engineering, Inje University)
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Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research / v.30, no.4, 2009 , pp. 333-340 More about this Journal
Abstract
MR compatible coaxial-slot antenna for microwave hyperthermia was developed while its structure and size of each part were determined by computer simulation using finite element method(FEM). Its local heating performance was evaluated using tissue-mimic phantom and swine muscles. 2% agarose gel mixed with 6mM/$\ell$ $MnCl_2$ as a biological tissue-mimic phantom was heated by the proposed antenna driven by a 2.45GHz microwave generator. The temperature changes of the phantom were monitored using multi-channel digital thermometer at the distance of 0mm, 5mm, 10mm and 20mm from the tip center of the antenna. Also muscle tissue of swine was heated for 2 and 5minutes with 50W and 30W of microwave generator powers, respectively, to evaluate the local heating performance of the antenna. MRI compatibility was also verified by acquiring MR images and MR temperature map. MR signals were acquired from the agarose gel phantom using $T2^*$ GRE sequence with 1.5T clinical MRI scanner(Signa Echospeed, GE, Milwaukee, WI, U.S.A.) at Pusan Paik Hospital and were transferred to PC in order to reconstruct MR images and temperature map using proton resonance frequency(PRF) method and laboratory-developed phase unwrapping algorithm. Authors found that it has no severe distortion due to the antenna inserted into the phantom. Finally, we can conclude that the suggested coaxial-slot antenna has an excellent local heating performance for both of tissue-mimic phantom and swine muscle, and it is compatible to 1.5T MRI scanner.
Keywords
MRI; Microwave thermotherapy; coaxial-slot antenna; MR temperature imaging;
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