Ventilation and perfusion imaging by electrical impedance tomography: A comparison with radionuclide scanning

Physiological Measurement

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 481-490

  Kunst, P W A ^a   Vonk Noordegraaf, A ^a   Hoekstra, O S ^a   Postmus, P E ^a   De Vries, P M J M ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Electrical impedance; Perfusion; Radionuclide; Tomography; Ventilation

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOISOTOPES;

CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTRICAL IMPE DANCE TOMOGRAPHY (EIT); ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE; LUNG CANCER; PERFUSION; PERFUSION IMAGING; PERFUSION MEASUREMENTS; RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING; RIGHTS DIVISIONS; VENTILATION MEASUREMENTS;

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT;

MACROSALB TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; LUNG VENTILATION PERFUSION RATIO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

EID: 0031791107     PISSN: 09673334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0967-3334/19/4/003     Document Type: Article

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