Methods for compensating for variable electrode contact in EIT

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2762-2772

  Boverman, Gregory ^a   Isaacson, David ^b   Saulnier, Gary J ^c   Newell, Jonathan C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^c RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer screening; Electrode contact; Image reconstruction; Impedance tomography; Inverse problems

Indexed keywords

3D RECONSTRUCTION; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CANCER SCREENING; CAPACITIVE EFFECT; CLINICAL DATA; CLINICAL SETTINGS; COMPENSATION ALGORITHM; COMPLETE ELECTRODE MODEL; CONTACT IMPEDANCE; DIRICHLET; DIRICHLET-TO-NEUMANN MAP; ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRODE CONTACT; ELECTRODE CONTACTS; ELECTRODE SURFACES; EXPERIMENTAL APPARATUS; IMAGING MODALITY; IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; ITERATIVE OPTIMIZATION; LEVENBERG-MARQUARDT; LINEARIZED ALGORITHMS; PROPER MODELING; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRODES; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; REPAIR;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ADHESION; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; CONDUCTANCE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTRIC CAPACITANCE; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LINEAR SYSTEM; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARDIOGRAPHY, IMPEDANCE; ELECTRODES; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 72649093164     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2009.2027129     Document Type: Article

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