Paper Info
Title
Magnetocardiography Measurements by Microfabricated Atomic Magnetometer With a 3-D Spherical Alkali Vapor Cell
Abstract
In the field of biomagnetic applications, including magnetocardiography (MCG), portable magnetic measurement is promising. This article demonstrates simulated MCG measurements using a microfabricated spin-exchange relaxation-free (SERF) atomic magnetometer with a 3-D chip-scale spherical rubidium vapor cell. The vapor cell temperature is optimized from 100 degrees C to 160 degrees C, and the magnetometer response is recorded under different magnetic flux densities in the range of 10-122 pT. Then simulated MCG measurements are implemented in a magnetic shield. The original MCG signals are denoised by a two-step processing to obtain the featured waveforms of the MCG signals. The experimental result shows that the microfabricated magnetometer in the magnetic shield exhibits a sensitivity of 125 fT/Hz(1/2) at 15 Hz, and the signal-to-noise ratio is increased to 48.3 after denoising. The magnetometer enabled by a 3-D chip-scale spherical rubidium vapor cell has the ability to obtain morphologically clear cardiomagnetic signals with distinct P-, QRS-, and T-waves. With further optimizations, the microfabricated atomic magnetometers based on chip-scale 3-D alkali vapor cells have the potential to enable magnetoencephalography (MEG) measurements and nuclear magnetic resonance imaging (NMRI).
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/TIM.2021.3120375
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INSTRUMENTATION AND MEASUREMENT
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Chip-scale, magnetocardiography (MCG), microfabricated atomic magnetometer, spherical alkali vapor cell, spin-exchange relaxation-free (SERF)
Journal
70
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0018-9456
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jin Zhang101.69
Kangni Liu200.34
Jianfeng Zhang300.34
Ziji Wang400.34
Jintang Shang500.68