1Institute
of Neuroradiology, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel,
Germany; 2Philips Research Europe, Hamburg, Germany; 3Philips
Research Laboratories, Hamburg, Germany
With Electric Properties Tomography (EPT), we are able to measure the electric conductivity of tissue as an additional parameter, which might improve the diagnostic of brain tumors and other diseases using standard MRI-sequences. Previous single case studies showed different conductivity for grey and white matter as well as for malignant and healthy brain tissue. In this study, we systematically examined 12 patients with intracerebral tumors in reference to the electrical conductivity of the tissue using a dedicated EPT sequence and reconstruction optimized for brain studies.