Communications Physics (Aug 2022)
Millimetre-scale magnetocardiography of living rats with thoracotomy
- Keigo Arai,
- Akihiro Kuwahata,
- Daisuke Nishitani,
- Ikuya Fujisaki,
- Ryoma Matsuki,
- Yuki Nishio,
- Zonghao Xin,
- Xinyu Cao,
- Yuji Hatano,
- Shinobu Onoda,
- Chikara Shinei,
- Masashi Miyakawa,
- Takashi Taniguchi,
- Masatoshi Yamazaki,
- Tokuyuki Teraji,
- Takeshi Ohshima,
- Mutsuko Hatano,
- Masaki Sekino,
- Takayuki Iwasaki
Affiliations
- Keigo Arai
- School of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology
- Akihiro Kuwahata
- Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo
- Daisuke Nishitani
- School of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology
- Ikuya Fujisaki
- School of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology
- Ryoma Matsuki
- School of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology
- Yuki Nishio
- School of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology
- Zonghao Xin
- Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo
- Xinyu Cao
- Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo
- Yuji Hatano
- School of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology
- Shinobu Onoda
- National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology
- Chikara Shinei
- Research Center for Functional Materials, National Institute for Materials Science
- Masashi Miyakawa
- Research Center for Functional Materials, National Institute for Materials Science
- Takashi Taniguchi
- International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science
- Masatoshi Yamazaki
- Department of Cardiology, Nagano Hospital
- Tokuyuki Teraji
- Research Center for Functional Materials, National Institute for Materials Science
- Takeshi Ohshima
- National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology
- Mutsuko Hatano
- School of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology
- Masaki Sekino
- Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo
- Takayuki Iwasaki
- School of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-022-00978-0
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 5,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 10
Abstract
Causes of heart failure can be investigated by tracing imperfections in electrical current propagation on the millimetre scale; however, the spatial resolution of current magnetocardiograph methods are limited to the centimetre-scale. Here, the authors report a millimetre-scale nitrogen vacancy-based quantum sensing to measure the magnetic field generated by the heart of a living rat, from which the cardiac electrical currents can be extrapolated.
