Necip Gurler1, Yusuf Ziya Ider1. 1. Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey.
Abstract
PURPOSE: To develop a fast, practically applicable, and boundary artifact free electrical conductivity imaging method that does not use transceive phase assumption, and that is more robust against the noise. THEORY: Starting from the Maxwell's equations, a new electrical conductivity imaging method that is based solely on the MR transceive phase has been proposed. Different from the previous phase based electrical properties tomography (EPT) method, a new formulation was derived by including the gradients of the conductivity into the equations. METHODS: The governing partial differential equation, which is in the form of a convection-reaction-diffusion equation, was solved using a three-dimensional finite-difference scheme. To evaluate the performance of the proposed method numerical simulations, phantom and in vivo human experiments have been conducted at 3T. RESULTS: Simulation and experimental results of the proposed method and the conventional phase-based EPT method were illustrated to show the superiority of the proposed method over the conventional method, especially in the transition regions and under noisy data. CONCLUSION: With the contributions of the proposed method to the phase-based EPT approach, a fast and reliable electrical conductivity imaging appears to be feasible, which is promising for clinical diagnoses and local SAR estimation. Magn Reson Med 77:137-150, 2017.
PURPOSE: To develop a fast, practically applicable, and boundary artifact free electrical conductivity imaging method that does not use transceive phase assumption, and that is more robust against the noise. THEORY: Starting from the Maxwell's equations, a new electrical conductivity imaging method that is based solely on the MR transceive phase has been proposed. Different from the previous phase based electrical properties tomography (EPT) method, a new formulation was derived by including the gradients of the conductivity into the equations. METHODS: The governing partial differential equation, which is in the form of a convection-reaction-diffusion equation, was solved using a three-dimensional finite-difference scheme. To evaluate the performance of the proposed method numerical simulations, phantom and in vivo human experiments have been conducted at 3T. RESULTS: Simulation and experimental results of the proposed method and the conventional phase-based EPT method were illustrated to show the superiority of the proposed method over the conventional method, especially in the transition regions and under noisy data. CONCLUSION: With the contributions of the proposed method to the phase-based EPT approach, a fast and reliable electrical conductivity imaging appears to be feasible, which is promising for clinical diagnoses and local SAR estimation. Magn Reson Med 77:137-150, 2017.
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