Imaging electric properties of biological tissues by RF field mapping in MRI

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 474-481

  Zhang, Xiaotong ^a   Zhu, Shanan ^b   He, Bin ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

B1 mapping; Electric properties (EPs); Electrical impedance imaging; Magnetic resonance electric properties tomography (MREPT)

Indexed keywords

3-D MODELING; B1 MAPPING; B1-MAPPING; BIOLOGICAL TISSUES; ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE IMAGING; FIELD CALCULATION; HEAD MODEL; HIGH FIELD MRI; ITERATIVE COMPUTATION; MAPPING TECHNIQUES; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; RELATIVE ERRORS; RF FIELDS; RF RADIATION; SIMULATION RESULT; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE; TEM; TRANSVERSE MAGNETIC; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

DIAGNOSIS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; HISTOLOGY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAPPING; RADIATION EFFECTS; RADIOFREQUENCY SPECTROSCOPY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TISSUE;

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BRAIN; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMPEDANCE; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; SCALP; SKULL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIO WAVES; SCALP; SKULL;

EID: 76249106990     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2009.2036843     Document Type: Article

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