Quantitative conductivity and permittivity imaging of the human brain using electric properties tomography

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 456-466

  Voigt, Tobias ^a   Katscher, Ulrich ^b   Doessel, Olaf ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

conductivity; electric properties tomography; patient specific SAR; permittivity; quantitative MRI

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS; BRAIN; DIAGNOSIS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY MEASUREMENT; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; NUMERICAL METHODS; PERMITTIVITY; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY;

CLINICAL FEASIBILITY; CONDUCTIVITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PATIENT SPECIFIC; PERMITTIVITY DISTRIBUTIONS; QUANTITATIVE MRIS; RADIO FREQUENCY COILS; RADIO-FREQUENCY SAFETIES; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRODE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOFREQUENCY; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS;

EID: 79960584785     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22832     Document Type: Article

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