Electric properties tomography: Biochemical, physical and technical background, evaluation and clinical applications

U Katscher, CAT van den Berg - NMR in Biomedicine, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Electric properties tomography (EPT) derives the patient's electric properties, ie conductivity
and permittivity, using standard magnetic resonance (MR) systems and standard MR …

Toward 20 T magnetic resonance for human brain studies: opportunities for discovery and neuroscience rationale

TF Budinger, MD Bird, L Frydman, JR Long… - … Resonance Materials in …, 2016 - Springer
An initiative to design and build magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and spectroscopy
(MRS) instruments at 14 T and beyond to 20 T has been underway since 2012. This initiative …

CSI-EPT: A contrast source inversion approach for improved MRI-based electric properties tomography

E Balidemaj, CAT van den Berg, J Trinks… - IEEE transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Electric properties tomography (EPT) is an imaging modality to reconstruct the electric
conductivity and permittivity inside the human body based on B 1+ maps acquired by a …

Gradient‐based electrical properties tomography (g EPT): A robust method for mapping electrical properties of biological tissues in vivo using magnetic resonance …

J Liu, X Zhang, S Schmitter… - Magnetic resonance …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To develop high‐resolution electrical properties tomography (EPT) methods and
investigate a gradient‐based EPT (gEPT) approach that aims to reconstruct the electrical …

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

J Liu, Y Wang, U Katscher, B He - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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) …

Magnetic-resonance-based electrical properties tomography: a review

X Zhang, J Liu, B He - IEEE reviews in biomedical engineering, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Frequency-dependent electrical properties (EPs; conductivity and permittivity) of biological
tissues provide important diagnostic information (eg, tumor characterization), and also play …

Electrical properties tomography: A methodological review

R Leijsen, W Brink, C van den Berg, A Webb, R Remis - Diagnostics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Electrical properties tomography (EPT) is an imaging method that uses a magnetic
resonance (MR) system to non-invasively determine the spatial distribution of the …

A method for quantitative imaging of electrical properties of human tissues from only amplitude electromagnetic data

MT Bevacqua, GG Bellizzi, L Crocco… - Inverse Problems, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The estimation of electrical properties of living biological tissues is relevant to several
medical applications ranging from hyperthermia treatment planning to dosimetry and, more …

Noninvasive estimation of electrical properties from magnetic resonance measurements via global Maxwell tomography and match regularization

JEC Serrallés, II Giannakopoulos… - IEEE Transactions …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective: In this paper, we introduce global Maxwell tomography (GMT), a novel volumetric
technique that estimates electric conductivity and permittivity by solving an inverse scattering …

In vivo electric conductivity of cervical cancer patients based on maps at 3T MRI

E Balidemaj, P De Boer, A Van Lier… - Physics in Medicine …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The in vivo electric conductivity (σ) values of tissue are essential for accurate
electromagnetic simulations and specific absorption rate (SAR) assessment for applications …