Stripe Sensor Tomography and application to microcoil Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) has undergone a multitude of innovations in the past decade. In conventional MRI, the major contribution to image resolution is the strength of the gradient magnetic fields used for frequency and phase encoding. A novel imaging technique, Stripe Sensor Tomography (SST), replaces conventional 2-D radiation required for radiation tomography by a linear array sensor and angular scanning. SST can be applied to MRI where the array replaces the receiver antenna and 2D electromagnetic radiation (magnetic field gradients in MRI) are no longer required to acquire a MR image. This prospect of Stripe Sensor Tomography in the application of MRI is demonstrated in the submicron scale [2].