Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine

Electromagnetic Tissue Properties Imaging for Biomedical Applications


Publishing date
10 May 2013
Status
Published
Submission deadline
21 Dec 2012

Lead Editor

1Department of Computational Science and Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul 120-749, Korea

2School of Mathematics, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK

3Philips Technologie GmbH, Roentgenstraße 24-26, Hamburg, Germany

4Department of Biomedical. Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Gyeonggi-do 446-701, Korea


Electromagnetic Tissue Properties Imaging for Biomedical Applications

Description

Recently, imaging techniques in science, engineering, and medicine have evolved to expand our ability to visualize internal information of an object such as the human body. In particular, there has been marked progress in electromagnetic property imaging techniques where cross-sectional image reconstructions of conductivity, permittivity, and susceptibility distributions inside the human body are pursued. These techniques also have wider application of imaging methods in medicine, biotechnology, nondestructive testing, monitoring of industrial process, and others.

This special issue focuses on imaging methodologies, mathematical models, and computational algorithms on electromagnetic tissue properties imaging for biomedical applications. The imaging problems in this topic can be formulated as inverse problems that are intrinsically nonlinear. Finding solutions with practical significance and value requires indepth understanding of the underlying physical phenomena with data acquisition systems as well as implementation details of image reconstruction algorithms. Experiences over the last three decades showed that symbiotic interplay among theoretical mathematics, computational mathematics, and experiments is crucial for understanding and solving these nonlinear problems in practice. With this special issue, we hope to give an opportunity to this scientific community to take consolidation and identify new challenges and the most promising directions for progress.

We invite submissions of papers in all aspect of electromagnetic tissue properties imaging. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Electrical impedance tomography (EIT)
  • Magnetic resonance electrical impedance tomography (MREIT)
  • Magnetic resonance current density imaging (MRCDI)
  • Magnetic resonance electrical properties tomography (MREPT)
  • Quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM)
  • Magnetic induction tomography (MIT)
  • Micro-EIT, multifrequency EIT, and breast EIT

Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/cmmm/guidelines/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable:


Articles

  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 461846
  • - Editorial

Electromagnetic Tissue Properties Imaging for Biomedical Applications

Jin Keun Seo | William Lionheart | ... | EungJe Woo
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 425184
  • - Research Article

Recent Progress on the Factorization Method for Electrical Impedance Tomography

Bastian Harrach
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 964918
  • - Research Article

A Local Region of Interest Imaging Method for Electrical Impedance Tomography with Internal Electrodes

Hyeuknam Kwon | Alistair L. McEwan | ... | Jin Keun Seo
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 704829
  • - Research Article

Numerical Simulations of MREIT Conductivity Imaging for Brain Tumor Detection

Zi Jun Meng | Saurav Z. K. Sajib | ... | Eung Je Woo
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 353849
  • - Research Article

Effective Admittivity of Biological Tissues as a Coefficient of Elliptic PDE

Jin Keun Seo | Tushar Kanti Bera | ... | Rosalind Sadleir
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 912920
  • - Research Article

Model Independent MRE Data Analysis

Kogo Yoshikawa | Gen Nakamura
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 381507
  • - Research Article

Current Density Imaging Using Directly Measured Harmonic Data in MREIT

Chunjae Park | Oh In Kwon
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 421619
  • - Research Article

Noninvasive Measurement of Conductivity Anisotropy at Larmor Frequency Using MRI

Joonsung Lee | Yizhuang Song | ... | Dong-Hyun Kim
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 974027
  • - Research Article

Robust Myocardial Motion Tracking for Echocardiography: Variational Framework Integrating Local-to-Global Deformation

Chi Young Ahn
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 546562
  • - Review Article

Recent Progress and Future Challenges in MR Electric Properties Tomography

Ulrich Katscher | Dong-Hyun Kim | Jin Keun Seo

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