Arbitrary geometry patient interfaces for breast cancer detection and monitoring with electrical impedance tomography

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'08 - "Personalized Healthcare through Technology"

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1178-1180

  Manwaring, Preston ^a   Halter, Ryan ^a   Wan, Yuqing ^a   Borsic, Andrea ^a   Hartov, Alex ^a   Paulsen, Keith ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; GEOMETRY;

ACQUISITION TIME; ARBITRARY GEOMETRY; BIOLOGICAL PROCESS; BREAST CANCER DETECTION; ELECTRICAL IMPE DANCE TOMOGRAPHY (EIT); ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; PROBLEM COMPLEXITY; TIME CONSTRAINTS;

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT;

ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; ELECTRODE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; EVALUATION STUDY; IMPEDANCE PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; ELECTRODES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY, IMPEDANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 61849130493     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2008.4649372     Document Type: Conference Paper

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