The phrase "a background of interest" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone's previous experiences or knowledge that make them particularly suited for a specific topic or field.
Example: "Her background of interest in environmental science made her an ideal candidate for the sustainability project."
Alternatives: "a history of interest" or "a foundation of interest".
Prices remain some way off the peak of £199,612 recorded by the index in August 2007, but a background of low interest rates, improving consumer confidence and government schemes such as Help to Buy and Funding for Lending, are stoking demand.
From a background of increasing interest in the psychological and quality-of-life outcomes for critical care patients, Usuki and colleagues have examined the potential impact of propofol on a cohort of individuals immediately after motor vehicle accidents [ 1].
Tymon has since released the following on the incident: "I respect Lord Hall's detailed findings and I am grateful to the BBC for their thorough and swift investigation into this very regrettable incident, against a background of intense media interest and speculation.
The SNR was calculated as the mean signal intensity within the affected region (MaR or infarcted myocardium) divided by the standard deviation of signal intensities within a background region of interest.
Beliefs, desires and actions, the argument goes, are never independent of a background of cultural presuppositions, interests and values.
All of this is set against a background of brewing scandals, myriad conflicts of interest, the gleeful humiliation of longstanding foes, and a President-elect who refuses to show even a measure of curiosity about the possibility that Russian intelligence agencies meddled in a national election.
Phylogenetic analysis was performed on the group of pyrosequencing reads, containing the TDR mutation of interest, in a background of the 96 sequences obtained from Sanger sequencing.
In addition, it provides several different procedures for analysis, such as the computation of means or percentages of any background variable of interest for a whole country or subgroup within a population (IEA 2012).
For each channel, 100 background regions of interest were randomly selected A normal distribution of the brightest pixel in each ROI was created and the mean and standard deviation was calculated.
For contrast-to-noise ratio calculation, myocardial and background regions of interest (white) were drawn on a midventricular short-axis image.
