Birgül, Ö.Eyüboğlu, B. M.İder, Y. Z.2016-02-082016-02-0820030031-9155http://hdl.handle.net/11693/24405Magnetic resonance electrical impedance tomography (MR-EIT) is an emerging imaging technique that reconstructs conductivity images using magnetic flux density measurements acquired employing MRI together with conventional EIT measurements. In this study, experimental MR-EIT images from phantoms with conducting and insulator objects are presented. The technique is implemented using the 0.15 T Middle East Technical University MRI system. The dc current method used in magnetic resonance current density imaging is adopted. A reconstruction algorithm based on the sensitivity matrix relation between conductivity and only one component of magnetic flux distribution is used. Therefore, the requirement for object rotation is eliminated. Once the relative conductivity distribution is found, it is scaled using the peripheral voltage measurements to obtain the absolute conductivity distribution. Images of several insulator and conductor objects in saline filled phantoms are reconstructed. The L2 norm of relative error in conductivity values is found to be 13%, 17% and 14% for three different conductivity distributions.EnglishCurrent densityElectric conductivityElectric conductorsElectric insulatorsElectric potentialMagnetic fluxMagnetic resonanceMagnetic resonance imagingMagnetic impedanceElectric impedance tomographySodium chlorideAlgorithmAnalytical errorCalculationControlled studyDensityElectric currentElectric potentialFinite element analysisImage reconstructionImpedanceMagnetic fieldMeasurementNuclear magnetic resonance imagingSensitivity analysisSignal noise ratioTomographyElectric ImpedanceImage EnhancementReproducibility of ResultsSensitivity and SpecificityArticle10.1088/0031-9155/48/21/003