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Based on the Verasonics system and the MC600 displacement platform, we designed and implemented a MAET system with a chirp pulse stimulation (MAET-CPS) method and a focal probe was utilized for stepscan focus excitation to enhance the imaging resolution. The relevant experiments were conducted to explore the influence of excitation positions of the single-focus point, and the effect of the excitation position on the amplitudes of the conductivity variation was clearly demonstrated. In order to take advantage of the merits of multifocus imaging, we firstly proposed a single focus MAET system with a chirp pulse stimulation (sfMAET-CPS) method and a multifocus MAET system with a chirp pulse stimulation (mfMAET-CPS) method for high-resolution conductivity imaging, and a homogenous gelatin phantom with a cuboid-shaped hole was used to investigate the accuracy of mfMAET-CPS. Comparative experiments were carried out on the same uniform phantom by the sfMAET-CPS and the mfMAET-CPS, respectively. The results showed that: (1) the electrical conductivity distributions of the homogenous phantom with a cuboid-shaped hole were detected by the sfMAET-CPS but were easily affected by the focal point, which demonstrated that the sfMAET-CPS had a low imaging resolution. (2) Compared with the sfMAET-CPS, the imaging effect of the mfMAET-CPS was much better than that of the sfMAET-CPS. (3) A linear interpolation algorithm was used to process the 2D conductivity distribution; it increased the smoothness of the conductivity distribution and improved the imaging effect. The stepscan focus excitation and the linearly frequency-modulated theory provide an alternative scheme for the clinical application of MAET.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s18072373","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,7,24]],"date-time":"2018-07-24T02:58:56Z","timestamp":1532401136000},"page":"2373","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":22,"title":["A 2D Magneto-Acousto-Electrical Tomography Method to Detect Conductivity Variation Using Multifocus Image Method"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"18","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4214-8594","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ming","family":"Dai","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Biomedical Engineering, Health Science Center, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China"},{"name":"Guangdong Key Laboratory for Biomedical Measurements and Ultrasound Imaging, Shenzhen 518060, China"},{"name":"National-Regional Key Technology Engineering Laboratory for Medical Ultrasound, Shenzhen 518060, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5406-4136","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xin","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Biomedical Engineering, Health Science Center, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China"},{"name":"Guangdong Key Laboratory for Biomedical Measurements and Ultrasound Imaging, Shenzhen 518060, China"},{"name":"National-Regional Key Technology Engineering Laboratory for Medical Ultrasound, Shenzhen 518060, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Tong","family":"Sun","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Biomedical Engineering, Health Science Center, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China"},{"name":"Guangdong Key Laboratory for Biomedical Measurements and Ultrasound Imaging, Shenzhen 518060, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Lingyao","family":"Yu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Guangdong Institute of Medical Instruments, Guangzhou 510000, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Mian","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Biomedical Engineering, Health Science Center, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China"},{"name":"Guangdong Key Laboratory for Biomedical Measurements and Ultrasound Imaging, Shenzhen 518060, China"},{"name":"National-Regional Key Technology Engineering Laboratory for Medical Ultrasound, Shenzhen 518060, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Haoming","family":"Lin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Biomedical Engineering, Health Science Center, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China"},{"name":"Guangdong Key Laboratory for Biomedical Measurements and Ultrasound Imaging, Shenzhen 518060, China"},{"name":"National-Regional Key Technology Engineering Laboratory for Medical Ultrasound, Shenzhen 518060, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Siping","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Biomedical Engineering, Health Science Center, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China"},{"name":"Guangdong Key Laboratory for Biomedical Measurements and Ultrasound Imaging, Shenzhen 518060, China"},{"name":"National-Regional Key Technology Engineering Laboratory for Medical Ultrasound, Shenzhen 518060, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,7,21]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"1","article-title":"Numerical Simulations and Experimental Study of Magneto-Acousto-Electrical Tomography With Plane Transducer","volume":"54","author":"Li","year":"2017","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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