Numerical modelling errors in electrical impedance tomography

Physiological Measurement

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2007, Pages

  Dehghani, Hamid ^a   Soleimani, Manuchehr ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electrical impedance tomography; Finite element method; Forward model; Mesh resolution; Model based image reconstruction

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; ERRORS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MESH GENERATION; NUMERICAL METHODS;

ELECTRICAL IMPE DANCE TOMOGRAPHY (EIT); FORWARD MODELING; IMAGES RECONSTRUCTION; INTERNAL IMPEDANCE; MESH RESOLUTION; MODEL ERRORS; MODEL-BASED IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MODEL-BASED OPC; NONINVASIVE TECHNIQUE; VOLUME OF INTEREST;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER; COMPUTER ASSISTED IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEASUREMENT; MEASUREMENT ERROR; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 34447093466     PISSN: 09673334     EISSN: 13616579     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0967-3334/28/7/S04     Document Type: Conference Paper

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