Abstract #2751

Incorporation of ADC Information Into SMM-Based MREIT for Small Animal Conductivity Imaging

Mark Jason Hamamura¹, Orhan Nalcioglu¹, Lufti Tugan Muftuler¹

¹Tu & Yuen Center for Functional Onco-Imaging, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA

In this study, we investigated the incorporation of apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) data into the sensitivity matrix method (SMM) for magnetic resonance electrical impedance tomography (MREIT) of a tumor-bearing rat. The results indicate that such an incorporation allows us to reconstruct sensible conductivity images, something which has remained problematic for in vivo MREIT.