Conductivity mapping depends sensitively on the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the transmit phase estimation. It is thus questionable, whether conductivity mapping can be performed at low field. Due to reduced off-resonances, however, a possible solution for the reduced SNR might be offered by balanced steady state free precession (bSSFP). Brain conductivity mapping with bSSFP was investigated at 0.55 T and appears to be feasible but besides SNR also the reduced curvature of the transmit field becomes challenging.
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