Forty years of magnetocardiology
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Dalhousie University, Department of Physics, Canada
About 40 years ago the SQUID was introduced in Biomagnetism. Its impressive sensitivity made it possible to, relatively conveniently, measure the extreme small magnetic fields generated by the body. The first biomagnetic measurement with the SQUID was that of the heart. Since then the advantages and limitations of magnetocardiology have been investigated in many research labs, several of them in a clinical setting. In this article we will describe the growth of this field, particularly during the first pivotal fifteen years, highlight some of the research efforts over these forty years and indicate in what direction magnetocardiology is developing.
Conference:
Biomag 2010 - 17th International Conference on Biomagnetism , Dubrovnik, Croatia, 28 Mar - 1 Apr, 2010.
Presentation Type:
Oral Presentation
Topic:
MCG: Instrumentation, Modeling, Basic and Clinical Studies
Citation:
Stroink
G
(2010). Forty years of magnetocardiology.
Front. Neurosci.
Conference Abstract:
Biomag 2010 - 17th International Conference on Biomagnetism .
doi: 10.3389/conf.fnins.2010.06.00308
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Received:
05 Apr 2010;
Published Online:
05 Apr 2010.
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Correspondence:
Gerhard Stroink, Dalhousie University, Department of Physics, Halifax, Canada, stroink@dal.ca