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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.