EMUE-D5-3-EPTTissueCharacterization

Magnetic resonance-based electric properties tomography

The example shows the uncertainty evaluation, under repeatability conditions, of a technique for Electric Properties Tomography (EPT), a quantitative imaging method based on Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). Repeated acquisitions of MRI scans of a homogeneous cylindrical phantom are analysed with appropriate statistical techniques to evaluate the variance-covariance matrix of the EPT input. The latter is then propagated through the EPT technique according to the law of propagation of the uncertainty as described in the GUM [Activity A2.3.2].

Files contained in the dataset are:

• ReadMe: text file describing the EMUE-D5-3-EPTTissueCharacterization dataset
• A232_Report.pdf: Report “Magnetic resonance-based electric properties tomography”
• A232_Report.tex: LaTeX file to be compiled in order to produce A232_Report.pdf
• CompendiumA232.bib: bibliography file
• kernel-shapes.png: plot in figure 1 of A232_Report.pdf
• acquired-maps.png: plot in figure 2 of A232_Report.pdf
• input-cov-pixel.png: plot in figure 3 of A232_Report.pdf
• output-cov.png: plot in figure 4 of A232_Report.pdf
• output-distr.png: plot in figure 5 of A232_Report.pdf
• code: directory containing the computational codes for the EPT software (C++) and post-processing (matlab)
• code/averages.m: matlab code that computes the averages, the weighted averages and the corresponding uncertainties
• code/CMakeLists.txt: cmake project for building the EPT software
• code/main.cc: C++ source file of the EPT software
• code/main.h: C++ header file of the EPT software
• data: directory containing the input and the output data of the EPT software
• data/emue-[0-2]-[1-5].toml: input configuration files for the EPT software
• data/emue-sphere.h5: input dataset of scans for the EPT software
• data/emue-sphere-scov.h5: input dataset of variance-covariance matrix computed with shrinkage estimation for the EPT software
• data/emue-[0-2]-[1-5].log: output log files of the EPT software
• data/emue-[0-2]-[1-5]-output.h5: output dataset files of the EPT software