Measurement of electrical properties of biological tissue at radio frequencies using magnetic resonance imaging

Author

Seung-Kyun Lee ; Bulumulla, Selaka ; Lamb, Peter ; Ileana Hancu

Author_Institution

GE Global Res., Niskayuna, NY, USA

fYear

2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Image shading in high-field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) due to radio-frequency (RF) wave propagation effects in biological tissue can be used to measure the electrical conductivity and relative permittivity of tissue in vivo. We describe a method to extract electrical properties of biological tissue from RF-shaded MR images without an explicit RF field mapping. The method is demonstrated on a meat sample and in the brain of a normal volunteer.

Keywords

bioelectric phenomena; biological tissues; biomedical MRI; brain; electrical conductivity measurement; medical image processing; permittivity measurement; radiowave propagation; RF-shaded MR image; biological tissue; brain; electrical conductivity measurement; electrical properties measurement; magnetic resonance imaging; meat sample; radiofrequency wave propagation effect; relative permittivity measurement; tissue in vivo; Conductivity; Electric variables measurement; Laplace equations; Magnetic resonance imaging; Noise; Radio frequency; MRI; RF; electrcial properties; electrcial properties tomography (EPT);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2015 9th European Conference on

Type

conf

Filename

7228156