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Abstract #2519

Tissue Thermal Property Tomography

Leeor Alon1, 2, Christopher Collins1, 2, Giuseppe Carluccio1, Dmitry S. Novikov1, Yudong Zhu1, 2, Daniel Sodickson1, 2

1Department of Radiology, Bernard and Irene Schwartz Center for Biomedical Imaging, New York University, New York, NY, United States; 2Sackler Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, New York University, New York, NY, United States

At last years ISMRM meeting, we introduced Local Maxwell Tomography (LMT) a method for noninvasive mapping of electrical conductivity and permittivity using incomplete MR-based measurements of RF field curvature. Here, we apply a theoretical framework analogous to that of LMT to solve Pennes bio-heat equation, instead of Maxwells equations, and thereby to reconstruct tissue thermal property maps from MR thermometric measurements. We outline the theory and demonstrate reconstruction of thermal properties such as heat capacity, thermal conductivity, and metabolic energy rate.

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