Title
Towards a Hall effect magnetic tracking device for MRI
Abstract
This paper presents the first prototype of a magnetic tracking device for Magnetic Resonance Imaging. The unique relationship between the space coordinates of a MRI scanner bore and the magnetic field gradients used in MRI allows building a localization system based on an accurate measurement of these gradients. These gradients are measured thanks to a 3D Hall device with a footprint of only 50µm(2), integrated with its specific conditioning circuit in a low cost, low voltage 0.35µm CMOS process. The first experimental results show that a sub-millimeter localization is possible. It opens the way to the development of MRI compatible magnetic tracking systems integrable in a surgical tool.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/EMBC.2013.6610162 PubMed ID : 24110349
Conference proceedings : ... Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual Conference
Keywords
Field
DocType
cmos integrated circuits,hall effect,biomedical mri,prototypes,3d hall device,cmos process,hall effect magnetic tracking device,mri scanner,magnetic resonance imaging,localization system,magnetic field gradients,prototype,space coordinates,magnetic flux,surgery,magnetic fields
Integrable system,Hall effect,Magnetic field,Tracking system,Electronic engineering,CMOS,Scanner,Low voltage,Physics,Magnetic resonance imaging
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
2013
1557-170X
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.47
0
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jean-Baptiste Schell152.87
jeanbaptiste kammerer211.82
Luc Hebrard32412.03
Breton, E.421.20
Daniel Gounot5583.40
Loïc Cuvillon6347.47
Michel de Mathelin738049.93