Medical Physics Seminar – Monday, October 30, 2017
Fetal Magnetocardiography and Optically-Pumped Magnetometers
Ronald Wakai, PhD
Professor, Department of Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin - Madison, WI - USA
Lethal electrical rhythms of the heart are the leading cause of unexpected sudden death and can occur at any age. In this talk I will review the importance of electrophysiology and describe recent progress our group has made in using magnetocardiography to diag-nose life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias in the fetus. I will also describe a new type of magnetometer, based on atomic physics principles, that has the potential to revolutionize magnetocardiography and other areas of biomagnetism.