Debra Strick Rivera1, Jack W. Judy2,
W Gilbert Clarke2,
1Neurophysics, Max Planck Institute,
Early-detection
of breast cancer is unreliable, and of increased importance due to
encouraging results of intraductal application of chemotherapy. We present a
prototype radio-frequency transceiver for intraductal microspectroscopy,
including soak-tests and heating studies. We demonstrate that the microcoil
prototype is capable of resolving fat and water spectra in a sample with
5000-fold fewer spins than a state of the art matrix coil.