A 3-D boundary element solution to the forward problem of Electrical Impedance Tomography

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn 26 II, Issue , 2004, Pages 960-963

  Babaeizadeh, Saeed ^a   Brooks, Dana H ^a   Isaacson, David ^b  

^a Northeastern University   (United States)

^b Research Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary Element Method (BEM); Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT); Inverse Electrocardiography (ECG)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRODES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MEDICAL IMAGING;

BIOELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY (EIT); ELECTRODE BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; INVERSE ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY (ECG);

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 11144326294     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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