A method for modelling and optimizing an electrical impedance tomography system

Physiological Measurement

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Hartinger, Alzbeta Elizabeth ^a   Gagnon, Hervé ^a   Guardo, Robert ^a  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biomedical instrumentation; Electrical impedance tomography; Electronic circuit modelling; Optimization method

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; CIRCUIT SIMULATION; CURVE FITTING; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; TIMING CIRCUITS;

BIOMEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; ELECTRICAL IMPE DANCE TOMOGRAPHY (EIT); ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT MODEL; ELECTRONICS CIRCUITS; ILL POSED PROBLEM; IMAGES RECONSTRUCTION; OPTIMIZATION METHOD; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; SCAN-HEAD; TOMOGRAPHY SYSTEM;

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE;

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER ASSISTED IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ELECTRODE; ELECTRONICS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INSTRUMENTATION; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SKIN;

EID: 33745180884     PISSN: 09673334     EISSN: 13616579     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0967-3334/27/5/S05     Document Type: Conference Paper

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