In vivo high-resolutionconductivity imaging of the human leg using MREIT: The first human experiment

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1681-1687

  Kim, Hyung Joong ^a   Kim, Young Tae ^a   Minhas, Atul S ^a   Jeong, Woo Chul ^a   Woo, Eung Je ^a   Seo, Jin Keun ^b   Kwon, O Jung ^c  

^a Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

^b Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^c Samsung Medical Center   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Conductivity image; In vivo human imaging; Magnetic resonance electrical impedance tomography (MREIT).

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTIVITY IMAGE; CORRECTION METHOD; CROSS-SECTIONAL CONDUCTIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL PROTOCOLS; HUMAN BODIES; HUMAN IMAGING; HUMAN SUBJECTS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHM; IMAGING EXPERIMENTS; IN VIVO HUMAN IMAGING; IN-VIVO; LARGE SURFACE AREA; MAGNETIC FLUX DENSITIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY (MREIT).; MOTION ARTIFACT; MR SIGNALS; MRI SCANNERS; OUTER LAYER; PIXEL SIZE; PULSE SEQUENCE; RADIO FREQUENCY COILS; SINGLE-STEP; SUBCUTANEOUS ADIPOSE TISSUES;

BONE; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MAGNETIC FLUX; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MUSCLE; PIXELS; SCANNING;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMPEDANCE; INSTRUMENTATION; LEG; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LEG; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 70350514803     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2009.2018112     Document Type: Article

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