Induced-Current Electrical Impedance Tomography: A 2-D Theoretical Simulation

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1550-1560

  Zlochiver, Sharon ^a   Rosenfeld, Moshe ^a   Abboud, Shimon ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Electrical impedance tomography; Induced currents; Newton Raphson reconstruction; Numerical simulation; Thoracic imaging

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRODES; ERROR ANALYSIS; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; GEOMETRY; MATRIX ALGEBRA;

ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY;

TOMOGRAPHY;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; HEART; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; LUNG; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX; TOMOGRAPHY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; HEART; HUMANS; LUNG; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0345306817     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2003.820025     Document Type: Article

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