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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 13, 2011
Tobias Ratko Voigt, London, GB;
Ulrich Katscher, Norderstedt, DE;
Thomas Hendrik Rozijn, Eindhoven, NL;
Paul Royston Harvey, Eindhoven, NL;
Hanno Homann, Hamburg, DE;
Christian Findeklee, Norderstedt, DE;
Eberhard Sebastian Hansis, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Tobias Ratko Voigt, London, GB;
Ulrich Katscher, Norderstedt, DE;
Thomas Hendrik Rozijn, Eindhoven, NL;
Paul Royston Harvey, Eindhoven, NL;
Hanno Homann, Hamburg, DE;
Christian Findeklee, Norderstedt, DE;
Eberhard Sebastian Hansis, Menlo Park, CA (US);
KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
A magnetic resonance method of electric properties tomography imaging of an object includes applying an excitation RF field to the object via a coil at a first spatial coil position (), acquiring resulting magnetic resonance signals via a receiving channel from the object, determining from the acquired magnetic resonance signals a first phase distribution and a first amplitude of a given magnetic field component of the excitation RF field of the coil at the first coil position (), repeating these steps with a coil at a second different spatial coil position (), to obtain a second phase distribution, determining a phase difference between the first and second phase distribution, determining a first and a second complex permittivity of the object, the first complex permittivity comprising the first amplitude of the given magnetic field component and the second complex permittivity comprising the second amplitude of the given magnetic field component and the phase difference, equating the first complex permittivity and the second complex permittivity for receiving a final equation and determining from the final equation a phase of the given magnetic field component for the first coil position ().