Electrical tissue property imaging using MRI at dc and Larmor frequency

Inverse Problems

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Seo, Jin Keun ^a   Kim, Dong Hyun ^a   Lee, Joonsung ^a   Kwon, Oh In ^b   Sajib, Saurav Z K ^c   Woo, Eung Je ^c  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^b Konkuk University   (South Korea)

^c Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIC PRINCIPLES; BIOELECTROMAGNETISM; CONDUCTIVITY IMAGING; CROSS SECTIONAL IMAGE; CROSS-SECTIONAL IMAGING; ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; EXTERNAL COILS; FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT; FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS; HUMAN BODIES; ILL POSED; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHM; IMAGING METHOD; IMPEDANCE IMAGING; KEY RELATIONS; LARMOR FREQUENCIES; MAGNETIC INDUCTION TOMOGRAPHY; MAPPING TECHNIQUES; MATHEMATICAL METHOD; MRI SCANNERS; PERMITTIVITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PERMITTIVITY VALUES; PHYSICAL PRINCIPLES; RECONSTRUCTION PROBLEMS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECTROSCOPIC IMAGING; SURFACE ELECTRODE; TISSUE PROPERTIES;

BIOMAGNETISM; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MAGNETIC FLUX; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PERMITTIVITY; SCANNING; TISSUE;

ELECTRIC PROPERTIES;

EID: 84864459237     PISSN: 02665611     EISSN: 13616420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0266-5611/28/8/084002     Document Type: Article

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