  The main contribution of this thesis is to investigate the incorporating skin
and proximity effects in magnetic induction tomography (MIT) coils and present
an improved model for the two-dimensional (2D) forward problem. To evaluate the
performance of the improved method in possible biomedical applications, a 16
coils 2D MIT system is modeled, and the finite element method (FEM) is employed
to solve the forward problem. Results show the difference between the induced
voltages obtained from the early and improved method falls into the meaningful
range in terms of achievable conductivity contrast from the improved one. This
finding revealed the importance and necessity of using the improved forward
method for modeling 2D MIT coils for biomedical applications...
