Multi-frequency electrical impedance tomography (EIT) of the adult human head: Initial findings in brain tumours, arteriovenous malformations and chronic stroke, development of an analysis method and calibration

Physiological Measurement

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Romsauerova, A ^a   McEwan, A ^a   Horesh, L ^a   Yerworth, R ^a   Bayford, R H ^b   Holder, D S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Compartment wise reconstruction; MFEIT; Stroke

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CALIBRATION; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; TUMORS;

ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; BRAIN TUMORS; CHRONIC STROKE; COMPARTMENT-WISE RECONSTRUCTION; ELECTRICAL IMPE DANCE TOMOGRAPHY (EIT); HEMORRHAGIC STROKE; ISCHEMIC STROKES; MULTI FREQUENCY; MULTI-FREQUENCY ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; STROKE;

ELECTRODES;

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; BRAIN TUMOR; CALIBRATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; STROKE;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CALIBRATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HEAD; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PILOT PROJECTS; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY, IMPEDANCE; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33745161508     PISSN: 09673334     EISSN: 13616579     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0967-3334/27/5/S13     Document Type: Conference Paper

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