학술논문

A 9.6 mW/Ch 10 MHz Wide-bandwidth Electrical Impedance Tomography IC with Accurate Phase Compensation for Breast Cancer Detection
Document Type
Conference
Source
2020 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), 2020 IEEE. :1-4 Mar, 2020
Subject
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Engineering Profession
Tomography
Integrated circuits
Impedance
Current measurement
Breast cancer
Dynamic range
Electrical impedance tomography (EIT)
impedance spectroscopy
breast cancer detection
wide-bandwidth
phase error
reconfigurable front-end architecture (RFA)
wide dynamic range LNA (WDR-LNA)
phase compensation loop (PCL)
dual-mode driver (DM-driver)
Language
ISSN
2152-3630
Abstract
A 10MHz wide-bandwidth Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) IC is proposed for compact and high-precision breast cancer detection system. The proposed IC has three key features: 1) wide dynamic range LNA (WDR-LNA), enabling low noise impedance measurements for the high-resolution imaging, 2) reconfigurable front-end architecture (RFA) to remove external multiplexer for the compact system integration, and 3) phase compensation loop (PCL) to efficiently correct the phase error, which is the primary challenge in wide-bandwidth EIT system. Thanks to the key features, the proposed prototype breast cancer detection system with the dedicated EIT IC can operate up to 10 MHz with a small phase error of 4.32 degree, eventually can detect a small size target object of 0.5 cm and verified with the phantom experiments.