Abstract #2865

In Vivo Quantitative Conductivity Imaging Based on B1 Phase Information

Tobias Voigt¹, Ulrich Katscher², Olaf Doessel¹

¹Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany; ²Philips Research Europe, Hamburg, Germany

In this work, in vivo conductivity values of human tissue are obtained using standard MRI. Conductivity is a new and quantitative contrast for MRI. It can be obtained in 3D within 5 min by means of phase-based reconstruction presented in this abstract. Phase-based reconstruction is motivated analytically and validated in FDTD simulations and in in vivo experiments.