Microwave Induced Thermoacoustic Tomography Summer III

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Microwave Induced Thermoacoustic
TomographySummer III

• By Zaid Al-Husseini

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Sections

• Current Progress
• Problems and Future Plans
• Experimental Design

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Current Progress

• Received Transducer from Panametrics without a
  cable
• The transducer requires a BCU-58-6W which is 77.
  This would connect directly to the input of the
  preamp.
• They do have a 5670 Preamp in stock. Cost with
  educational discount is 648
• We will need some kind of pulsating source or to
  induce thermoacoustic waves through the
  microwaves as we planned originally.
• We spoke to Kip and Ray, Ray did not seem to have
  any cables in stock for the V304 Transducer.
• Kip gave us a dusty preamplifier that might or
  might not work (still experimenting with it)
• Hooked up Function Generator with Oscilliscope
  and it function properlywill need to connect the
  Oscilliscope to the computer.

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Current Progress Continued

• Talked to Gang regarding hooking up Oscilloscope
  to Computer using Cit will be too long and
  tedious to do.
• The best solution to hooking up Oscilloscope to
  Computer would be to call HP and see if they can
  send some kind of GPIB software.

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Problems and Future Plans

• Need to call HP and find out about software for
  Oscilloscope?
• We need 2 more large patch antennas for the
  project
• We need cables for the V304 Transducer (Demo or
  buy?)
• Should we order a Demo of the 5670 preamplifier?
• We need a power amplifier for the Microwaves,
  however we still do not know how much power is
  required ( 5kW)
• We need a divider for the Antennas
• We still need to construct the Apparatus.

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Experimental Design