Abstract #2990

Comparison of Multi-transmit Microstrips and Loops for Electrical Properties Tomography (EPT) in the Breast at 3T

Yicun Wang¹, Gregor Adriany², Jiaen Liu¹, Xiaotong Zhang¹, Pierre-Francois Van de Moortele², and Bin He^1,3

¹Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States, ²Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States, ³Institute for Engineering in Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States

Electrical Properties Tomography (EPT) is a promising technique to provide high specificity in breast cancer diagnosis. Previous studies have demonstrated that multi-transmit coils array enables reconstruction of the electrical properties free of transmit phase and local homogeneity assumptions. In this study, the strengths and drawbacks of a microstrip array and a loop array for EPT reconstruction in the breast at 3T were investigated based on numerical simulations. It has been discovered that with the same driving power, a loop array provides higher signal to noise ratio on the reconstructed image while a microstrip array performs better at delineating tissue boundaries.

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