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Abstract #4190

Conductivity Mapping Using Ultrashort Echo Time (UTE) Imaging

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.