Rotating Slice Scanning Mode for Traveling Wave MPI

Since the introduction of magnetic particle imaging in 2005, several different types of scanner were presented. One of them is the traveling wave magnetic particle imaging (TWMPI) scanner. It uses for imaging a dynamic linear gradient array for a dynamic generation of a strong gradient and field free point. An unresolved issue of the TWMPI approach so far is the non-isotropic spatial resolution. As an alternative in this paper, a rotating slice scanning mode for TWMPI is presented to overcome this issue. This approach rotates the scanning-slices around the scanner axis and uses a projection reconstruction method to get a 3-D volume with a high isotropic resolution.