Hyung Joong Kim1, Young Tae Kim1,
Woo Chul Jeong1, Atul Singh Minhas1, Tae Hwi Lee1,
O Jung Kwon2, Eung Je Woo1
1Biomedical engineering, Kyung Hee University,
Yongin, Gyeonggi, Korea, Republic of; 2Medicine, Sungkyunkwan
University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
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Magnetic Resonance Electrical Impedance Tomography (MREIT), we measure
induced magnetic flux density subject to multiple injection currents to
reconstruct cross-sectional conductivity images. Newly developed multi-echo
pulse sequence in MREIT is expected to provide a higher magnitude image SNR
and lower noise level in magnetic flux density data. Injecting 3 mA imaging
currents into the human knee, we collected induced magnetic flux density data
using the multi-echo pulse sequence. Reconstructed conductivity images using
the harmonic Bz algorithm show good contrast among different parts of the
subcutaneous adipose tissue, muscle, synovial capsule, and bone inside the
knee