Accelerating acquisition strategies for low-frequency conductivity imaging using MREIT.

Phys Med Biol

School of Mathematics and Statistics, Institute of Data Science and Technology, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, Shandong, 250014, People's Republic of China.

Published: February 2018

We sought to improve efficiency of magnetic resonance electrical impedance tomography data acquisition so that fast conductivity changes or electric field variations could be monitored. Undersampling of k-space was used to decrease acquisition times in spin-echo-based sequences by a factor of two. Full MREIT data were reconstructed using continuity assumptions and preliminary scans gathered without current. We found that phase data were reconstructed faithfully from undersampled data. Conductivity reconstructions of phantom data were also possible. Therefore, undersampled k-space methods can potentially be used to accelerate MREIT acquisition. This method could be an advantage in imaging real-time conductivity changes with MREIT.

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