用于肿瘤消融边界监测的电阻抗成像系统设计与实验研究

      Design and Experimental Study of Electrical Impedance Tomography System for Tumor Ablation Boundary Monitoring

      • 摘要: 微创热消融技术不同于传统外科手术,需要借助辅助设备对消融结果进行评估,而目前临床上采用的超声和CT又存在伪影和辐射等不足之处。为此,本文提出并设计了一款基于电阻抗成像原理的微创热消融评估系统,用于监测消融范围大小。同时,在电阻抗成像系统设计上创新性地引入可程控放大的前馈信号作为乘法解调器的参信号,能够有效解决微弱信号淹没在噪声中的问题,提高成像精度。系统通过STM32控制电流信号的激励大小和边界电压的采集与处理,将采集的数据上传至上位机,再由Newton-Raphson算法重构电导率分布,从而映射出消融区域大小。实验测试结果表明,该系统可以有效地反映微波消融区域大小。在同样的微创消融参数下,平均成像长径误差在0.6 mm,短径误差在0.8 mm,轴比(长径/短径)误差为1.75%,具有较高的一致性,验证了电阻抗成像在微创热消融下的技术前景。

         

        Abstract: The minimally invasive thermal ablation technology is different from the traditional surgical operation, which requires the aid of auxiliary equipment to evaluate the ablation results. However, the ultrasound and CT currently used in clinic have shortcomings such as artifacts and radiation. Therefore, this paper proposes and designs a minimally invasive thermal ablation evaluation system based on the principle of electrical impedance imaging to monitor the ablation range. At the same time, the innovative introduction of progra mmable amplified feedforward signal as the parameter signal of the multiplier demodulator in the design of electrical impedance imaging system can effectively solve the problem of weak signal submerged in noise and improve the imaging accuracy. The system controls the excitation size of current signal and the acquisition and processing of boundary voltage through STM32, uploads the collected data to the upper computer, and reconstructs the conductivity distribution through Newton Raphson algorithm, so as to map the ablation area size. The experimental results show that the system can effectively reflect the size of microwave ablation area. Under the same minimally invasive ablation parameters, the average imaging long diameter error is 0.6 mm, the short diameter error is 0.8 mm, and the axial ratio (long diameter / short diameter) error is 1.75%, which has high consistency, verifying the technical prospect of electrical impedance imaging in minimally invasive thermal ablation.

         

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