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@ARTICLE{Barendsz:305533,
author = {L. J. C. Barendsz and K. Sumser and T. Gerhalter and R. M.
C. Mestrom and A. Nagel$^*$ and M. M. Paulides},
title = {{T}icept: {W}ideband {E}lectrical {P}roperties {T}omography
by {T}issue {C}omposition {A}ssessment {W}ith {Q}uantitative
$^{1}${H}$^{23}${N}a$^{39}${K} {M}ultinuclear {MRI}.},
journal = {Magnetic resonance in medicine},
volume = {95},
number = {3},
issn = {1522-2594},
address = {New York, NY [u.a.]},
publisher = {Wiley-Liss},
reportid = {DKFZ-2025-02207},
pages = {1503-1512},
year = {2026},
note = {2026 Mar;95(3):1503-1512. doi: 10.1002/mrm.70139. Epub 2025
Oct 24},
abstract = {To develop a noninvasive method for estimating dielectric
properties over a wide frequency range from 50 to 600 MHz.
Existing methods are limited in accuracy and provide
single-frequency results. Furthermore, accurate knowledge of
dielectric properties becomes more important, since medical
device design and safety evaluation increasingly rely on
computational modeling-based evaluation.Tissue composition
assessment was performed to find the most important factors
for the dielectric properties, which were sodium, potassium,
and water. These were measured with a 3D
acquisition-weighted density-adapted stack-of-stars scheme
($^{23}$ Na and $^{39}$ K) and an inversion recovery turbo
spin echo sequence ($^{1}$H). Measurements were conducted in
muscle-representative phantoms and six healthy volunteers.
These measurements were used as input for mixture models,
which were used to correlate the dielectric properties of
the mixture with its constituents. Four different mixture
models were tested to assess the feasibility of this
method.With the Maxwell-Garnett mixture model, a 7.9\% error
in the real relative permittivity and a 4.0\% error in the
effective conductivity are found for the phantoms. The in
vivo values are in a similar range to those reported in
literature.We presented the feasibility of estimating
dielectric properties over a wide frequency band with
quantitative MRI, leading to a new method:
$^{1}$H$^{23}$Na$^{39}$K-TiCEPT. A discrepancy can be
observed in the 50-200 MHz range, but the data aligns with
literature from 200-600 MHz. These results show substantial
intersubject differences in effective conductivity (29\%),
supporting the need for an accurate method to provide in
vivo dielectric tissue properties.},
keywords = {electrical conductivity (Other) / electrical properties
tomography (EPT) (Other) / mixture theory (Other) /
permittivity (Other) / potassium MRI (Other) / sodium MRI
(Other) / tissue water content (Other)},
cin = {E020},
ddc = {610},
cid = {I:(DE-He78)E020-20160331},
pnm = {315 - Bildgebung und Radioonkologie (POF4-315)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-315},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {pmid:41133303},
doi = {10.1002/mrm.70139},
url = {https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/305533},
}