Electrical Properties Tomography Based on B} Maps in MRI: Principles, Applications, and Challenges

• Published in: IEEE transactions on biomedical engineering Vol. 64; no. 11; pp. 2515 - 2530
• Main Authors: Liu, Jiaen, Wang, Yicun, Katscher, Ulrich, He, Bin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States IEEE 01.11.2017; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: <named-content xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" content-type="math" xlink:type="simple"> <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX"> B_{{1}}</tex-math> </inline-formula> </named-content>-mapping; Algorithms; Animals; Biomedical materials; Biomedical measurement; Brain - diagnostic imaging; Data processing; Electric Conductivity; Electrical properties; electrical properties tomography; EPT; Error detection; Estimation; Feasibility; Female; Heating; Helmholtz equations; Humans; Image Processing, Computer-Assisted - methods; Image reconstruction; In vivo methods and tests; Magnetic resonance imaging; Magnetic Resonance Imaging - methods; Medical imaging; Moisture content; MRI; Neoplasms - diagnostic imaging; Noise sensitivity; Phantoms, Imaging; Predictions; quantitative magnetic resonance imaging; Radio frequency; Rats; Reconstruction algorithms; Sodium; Time-frequency analysis; Tissues; Tomography; Tomography - methods; Water content

Objective: The purpose is to provide a comprehensive review of the electrical properties tomography (EPT) technique, which was introduced to image the electrical properties (EPs) of tissue noninvasively by exploiting the measured <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">B_{{1...