Hyung Joong Kim1, Woo Chul Jeong1, Young Tae Kim1, Munish Chauhan1, Eung Je Woo1
1Biomedical Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Yongin, Gyeonggi, Korea, Republic of
Recent experimental MREIT studies demonstrated conductivity image reconstructions of in vivo animal and human subjects with a few millimeter pixel size. Such a resolution could be sufficient to distinguish different human tissues for certain applications. In order to visualize a conductivity distribution within a tissue or a small animal, it is necessary to develop a high-resolution MREIT technique. The experimental results using a 4.7 T research MRI scanner with a multi-echo ICNE pulse sequence and high-performance RF coils demonstrate that we can distinguish two different anomalies in reconstructed conductivity images with a pixel size as small as 400 m.