Table 3.

Phantom permittivity (in relative units) obtained from simulations and measurements

	Simulations						Measurements
	$|B_1^{+}|$ and $B_1^{+}$ phase (noiseless)		$|B_1^{+}|$ and transceive phase (noiseless)		$|B_1^{+}|$ a and transceive phase		$|B_{+}^1|$ and transceive phase
	Inner compartment	Outer compartment	Inner compartment	Outer compartment	Inner compartment	Outer compartment	Inner compartment	Outer compartment
TRUEb	80	36	80	36	80	36	80	36
INPUTc	80.64 ± 0.59	36.42 ± 0.76	80.45 ± 2.76	36.21 ± 5.94	—	—	—	—
AFI	74.69 ± 2.28	43.28 ± 3.46	74.49 ± 3.13	43.07 ± 6.66	73.79 ± 95.75	43.04 ± 26.14	83.77 ± 103.00	38.65 ± 31.85
BS	74.71 ± 2.26	42.74 ± 3.63	74.52 ± 3.11	42.52 ± 6.78	74.52 ± 44.02	42.57 ± 12.48	72.34 ± 47.65	38.40 ± 22.38
DREAM	65.02 ± 10.68	49.03 ± 13.86	64.81 ± 10.76	48.80 ± 14.86	63.52 ± 17.00	47.98 ± 28.93	56.87 ± 48.71	55.31 ± 46.69

Mean ± std values were calculated in 2 ROIs corresponding to both compartments. The boundary errors attributed to EPT reconstruction were excluded from the ROIs.

^aMonte Carlo simulation to emulate the MR measurements. $B_1^{+}$ maps were affected by noise, which corrupted the original images I₁ and I₂.

^bTRUE refers to the permittivity values measured with the dielectric probe and already reported in Table 1.

^cINPUT refers to the permittivity values calculated from the input permittivity (i.e. the permittivity based on the input $|B_1^{+}|$ obtained directly from the EM simulation).