Real-time management of faulty electrodes in electrical impedance tomography

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 369-377

  Hartinger, Alzbeta E ^a   Guardo, Robert ^a   Adler, Andy ^b   Gagnon, Hervé ^a  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biomedical instrumentation; Electrical impedance tomography (EIT); Faulty electrodes; Voltage current reciprocity principle

Indexed keywords

A-PRIORI; BIOMEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; CLINICAL APPLICATIONS; CLINICAL STAFFS; DATA LOSS; ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY (EIT); FAULTY ELECTRODES; HIGH-QUALITY IMAGES; IMAGE ARTIFACTS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; PATIENT MOVEMENTS; REAL-TIME DETECTIONS; REAL-TIME MANAGEMENTS; VOLTAGE - CURRENT RECIPROCITY PRINCIPLE;

DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRODES; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INSTRUMENTS; MANAGEMENT; MEASUREMENTS; RESTORATION;

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; AUTOANALYSIS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODE; ERROR; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRODES; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MALE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 63849284283     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2008.2003103     Document Type: Article

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