Electrical impedance tomography for piecewise constant domains using boundary element shape-based inverse solutions

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 637-647

  Babaeizadeh, Saeed ^a,b   Brooks, Dana H ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^c Northeastern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Bivariate splines; Boundary element method (BEM); Electrical impedance tomography (EIT); Experimental validation; Inverse problem; Shape based solution; Spherical harmonics

Indexed keywords

BIVARIATE SPLINES; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION; SHAPE BASED SOLUTION; SPHERICAL HARMONICS;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMPEDANCE; IMPEDANCE PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY, IMPEDANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34247553402     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2006.887367     Document Type: Article

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