J-Substitution and Filtered Equipotential-Projection Based Hybrid MREIT Reconstruction Algorithm

2009-09-12
Boyacioglu, Rasim
Eyüboğlu, Behçet Murat
Magnetic Resonance Electrical Impedance Tomography (MREIT) reconstructs true conductivity images by using current density distribution and surface potential measurements. In this study, equipotential projection [1] and J-substitution image reconstruction [2] algorithms for MREIT are compared. A novel reconstruction method, J-substitution and filtered equipotential-projection based hybrid reconstruction algorithm, is proposed. In this method, the image reconstructed with equipotential projection algorithm is filtered and then assigned as the starting conductivity distribution for J-substitution algorithm. True conductivity distribution can also be reconstructed with two surface potential measurements. Methods are simulated on a thorax phantom and results show that the proposed method has an improved performance in some regions.

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Citation Formats
R. Boyacioglu and B. M. Eyüboğlu, “J-Substitution and Filtered Equipotential-Projection Based Hybrid MREIT Reconstruction Algorithm,” 2009, vol. 25, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/54714.