Anatomically Constrained Electrical Impedance Tomography for Anisotropic Bodies via a Two-Step Approach

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 498-503

  Glidewell, Michael ^a   Ng, Kwong T ^a  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; BIOELECTRIC POTENTIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MUSCLE; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

ANISOTROPIC CONDUCTIVITY; BIOELECTRIC MODELING; ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; TWO-STEP APPROACH;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0029375966     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.414615     Document Type: Article

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