Abstract #4177

Localized Electrical Property Retrieval Theories and Numerical Examples

Shao Ying Huang¹, Elfar Adalsteinsson², Berkin Bilgic², Shaohui Foong¹, Lawrence L. Wald³

¹Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore, Singapore; ²Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States; ³Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, United States

In our work, we propose a new method to retrieve electrical properties of tissues when the half phase assumption holds, termed Localized Electrical Property Retrieval (LEPR). For this method, only surface integration is needed rather than a volume one. Furthermore, the surface integrals can be chosen so that only B1+ or B1- is needed, meaning it does not require the z-component of the magnetic field, which is similar to electric properties tomography (EPT). In this abstract, the theory of LEPR is presented in detail. Under the tested simulation data where ground-truth is known, the LEPR maps out-perform EPT.