TY - JOUR
T1 - Gradient-based magnetic resonance electrical properties imaging of brain tissues
AU - Liu, Jiaen
AU - Zhang, Xiaotong
AU - Schmitter, Sebastian
AU - Van De Moortele, Pierre Francois
AU - He, Bin
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Electrical properties tomography (EPT) holds promise for noninvasively mapping at high spatial resolution the electrical conductivity and permittivity of biological tissues in vivo using a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner. In the present study, we have developed a novel gradient-based EPT approach with greatly improved tissue boundary reconstruction and largely elevated robustness against measurement noise compared to existing techniques. Using a 7 Tesla MRI system, we report, for the first time, high-quality in vivo human brain electrical property images with refined structural details, which can potentially merit clinical diagnosis (such as cancer detection) and high-field MRI applications (quantification of local specific absorption rate) in the future.
AB - Electrical properties tomography (EPT) holds promise for noninvasively mapping at high spatial resolution the electrical conductivity and permittivity of biological tissues in vivo using a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner. In the present study, we have developed a novel gradient-based EPT approach with greatly improved tissue boundary reconstruction and largely elevated robustness against measurement noise compared to existing techniques. Using a 7 Tesla MRI system, we report, for the first time, high-quality in vivo human brain electrical property images with refined structural details, which can potentially merit clinical diagnosis (such as cancer detection) and high-field MRI applications (quantification of local specific absorption rate) in the future.
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U2 - 10.1109/EMBC.2014.6945010
DO - 10.1109/EMBC.2014.6945010
M3 - Article
C2 - 25571378
AN - SCOPUS:84964313785
SN - 1557-170X
VL - 2014
SP - 6056
EP - 6059
JO - Conference proceedings : ... Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Conference
JF - Conference proceedings : ... Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Conference
T2 - 2014 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2014
Y2 - 26 August 2014 through 30 August 2014
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