An electrode addressing protocol for imaging brain function with electrical impedance tomography using a 16-channel semi-parallel system

Physiological Measurement

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Fabrizi, L ^a   McEwan, A ^a   Oh, T ^a   Woo, E J ^b   Holder, D S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Brain; Electrical impedance tomography; Functional imaging

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRODES; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT;

APPLIED CURRENT; BRAIN FUNCTIONS; CURRENT INJECTIONS; ELECTRICAL IMPE DANCE TOMOGRAPHY (EIT); ELECTRODE PAIRS; FUNCTIONAL IMAGING; LOCALIZATION ERRORS; PARALLEL RECORDING; PARALLEL SYSTEM; RECORDING CHANNELS;

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE;

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODE; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INSTRUMENTATION; NEUROIMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ALGORITHM; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION; IMPEDANCE; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRODES; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 70149118126     PISSN: 09673334     EISSN: 13616579     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0967-3334/30/6/S06     Document Type: Article

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