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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 03, 2013
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Ileana Hancu, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Selaka Bandara Bulumulla, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Florian Wiesinger, Bavaria, DE;
Laura Irene Sacolick, Bavaria, DE;
Seung Kyun Lee, Niskayuna, NY (US);
General Electric Company, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for determining electrical properties using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) are provided. One method includes applying an ultra-short echo time (TE) pulse sequence in a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) system and acquiring a complex BBquantity from an object following the application of the ultra-short TE pulse sequence, where Bis a complex amplitude of a transmit radio-frequency (RF) magnetic field and Bis a complex amplitude of a receive RF magnetic field. The method also includes estimating, with a processor, one or more electrical properties of the object using the complex amplitudes of the transmit RF magnetic field and the receive RF magnetic field.