Ferdinand Schweser1,
2, Li Huang, 13, Karl-Heinz Herrmann1, Martin
Krmer1, Andreas Deistung1, Jrgen R. Reichenbach1
1Medical
Physics Group, Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology I, Jena
University Hospital - Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany; 2School
of Medicine, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany; 3Abbe
School of Photonics, Faculty for Physics and Astronomy, Friedrich Schiller
University Jena, Jena, Germany
MR-based Electric Properties Tomography (EPT) provides a non-invasive means to assess electric tissue properties based on B1 field maps. It was recently shown that B1 phase is reflected in the phase of ultrashort echo time (UTE) signal. In this contribution we investigated the possibility of using UTE phase for in vivo conductivity mapping of the brain.