title: Single acquisition electrical property mapping based on relative coil sensitivities: A proof-of-concept demonstration.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  All methods presented to date to map both conductivity and permittivity rely on multiple acquisitions to compute quantitatively the magnitude of radiofrequency transmit fields, B1+. In this work, we propose a method to compute both conductivity and permittivity based solely on relative receive coil sensitivities ( B1-) that can be obtained in one single measurement without the need to neither explicitly perform transmit/receive phase separation nor make assumptions regarding those phases.
  
  
  METHODS
  To demonstrate the validity and the noise sensitivity of our method we used electromagnetic finite differences simulations of a 16-channel transceiver array. To experimentally validate our methodology at 7 Tesla, multi compartment phantom data was acquired using a standard 32-channel receive coil system and two-dimensional (2D) and 3D gradient echo acquisition. The reconstructed electric properties were correlated to those measured using dielectric probes.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The method was demonstrated both in simulations and in phantom data with correlations to both the modeled and bench measurements being close to identity. The noise properties were modeled and understood.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The proposed methodology allows to quantitatively determine the electrical properties of a sample using any MR contrast, with the only constraint being the need to have 4 or more receive coils and high SNR. Magn Reson Med 74:185-195, 2015. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
authors.forename: José P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Marques
authors.affiliation: Bernard and Irene Schwartz Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA.
authors.forename: Daniel K
authors.initials: DK
authors.lastname: Sodickson
authors.affiliation: Laboratory for Functional and Metabolic Imaging, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Ozlem
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Ipek
authors.affiliation: Bernard and Irene Schwartz Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA.
authors.forename: Christopher M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Collins
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.|Laboratory for Functional and Metabolic Imaging, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.|Department of Radiology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Rolf
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gruetter
keywords: coil sensitivities; conductivity; permittivity; quantitative imaging
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