Fat-Water Signal-Based Electrical Properties Tomography Using the Dixon Technique

• Published in: IEEE transactions on instrumentation and measurement Vol. 73; pp. 1 - 8
• Main Authors: Ren, Yinhao, Yuan, Kecheng, Xu, Guofang, Ye, Chunyou, Liu, Feng, Qiu, Bensheng, Nan, Xiang, Han, Jijun
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 2024; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Accuracy; Conductivity; Dixon water-fat quantification; Electrical properties; electrical properties tomography (EPT); Fats; Imaging; Liver; Magnetic resonance imaging; magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Medical diagnostic imaging; Medical imaging; Permittivity; Permittivity measurement; Phantoms; Probes; relative permittivity; Tomography; Transmission line measurements

This study aimed to improve the accuracy of electrical properties tomography (EPT) by proposing a fat-water quantification-based EPT (FW-EPT) using the Dixon technique and provided a feasible approach for obtaining electrical properties (EPs) from current clinical routing modalities. Nine human live...