Three-dimensional electrical impedance tomography based on the complete electrode model

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1150-1160

  Vauhkonen, Päivi J ^a   Vauhkonen, Marko ^a   Savolainen, Tuomo ^a   Kaipio, Jari P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Complete electrode model; Electrical impedance tomography; Finite element method (FEM); Ill posed inverse problem; Three dimensional (3 D) imaging

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRODES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ILL-POSED INVERSE PROBLEM;

BIOELECTRIC PHENOMENA;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BODY SURFACE; COMPUTER ASSISTED IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRODES; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032819129     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.784147     Document Type: Article

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