Using multiple-electrode impedance measurements to monitor cryosurgery

Medical Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 2806-2814

  Hartov, Alex ^a   LePivert, Patrick ^b   Soni, Nirmal ^a   Paulsen, Keith ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b CryoFlex Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Cryosurgery; EIT; Electrical impedance tomography

Indexed keywords

CRYOSURGERY; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRODES; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PROBES; TANKS (CONTAINERS);

ELECTRICAL IMPE DANCE TOMOGRAPHY (EIT); ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; FREEZING EXPERIMENTS; IMPEDANCE SENSING; MULTIPLE CHANNELS; MULTIPLE ELECTRODES; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE;

ICE;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; COOLING; CRYOSURGERY; ELECTRODE; FREEZING; GEOMETRY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 12244268009     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1521721     Document Type: Article

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