Electric properties tomography (EPT) of breast tissue using High Spectral and Spatial resolution (HiSS) MRI
Milica Medved1, Ulrich Katscher2, Hiroyuki Abe1, and Gregory S Karczmar1
1Department of Radiology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States, 2Philips Research, Hamburg, Germany
We demonstrate feasibility of EPT analysis as applied
to HiSS MRI data, which could simplify the process of lesion delineation
relative to the current method and may thus improve the diagnostic accuracy of
non-contrast breast MRI.
Figure 1: A slice through the center of two invasive ductal
carcinomas is shown in Fig. 1, for T2W-VISTA (a) and HiSS MRI water peak height
(b) images. (c) and (d) show conductivity
maps derived from (a) and (b), respectively, using EPT.