Electrical conductivity imaging using magnetic resonance tomography

Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3162-3164

  Katscher, Ulrich ^a   Voigt, Tobias ^b   Findeklee, Christian ^a  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY MEASUREMENT; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; TOMOGRAPHY;

CEREBRO SPINAL FLUIDS; CIRCULARLY POLARIZED; CONDUCTIVITY MEASUREMENTS; DIAGNOSTIC PARAMETER; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE TOMOGRAPHY; PHANTOM EXPERIMENT; SENSITIVITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE;

EID: 77951021793     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5334031     Document Type: Conference Paper

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