A method to solve the forward problem in magnetic induction tomography based on the weakly coupled field approximation

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 914-921

  Dekdouk, Bachir ^a   Yin, Wuliang ^a,b   Ktistis, Christos ^a   Armitage, David W ^a   Peyton, Anthony J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Forward problem; Magnetic induction tomography (MIT); Skin effect; Weakly coupled approximation

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTORS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MAGNETIC PERMEABILITY; MAGNETISM; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; TOMOGRAPHY;

ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; BIOLOGICAL TISSUES; CIRCUIT ANALYSIS; COMPLEX CONDUCTIVITY; COMPUTATION TIME; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; COUPLED FIELDS; ELECTRICAL CIRCUIT; FINITE-ELEMENT; FORWARD PROBLEM; FREQUENCY EXCITATION; FREQUENCY LIMITS; FULL WAVES; HIGH RESOLUTION; ILL POSED; IMPEDANCE METHOD; ITERATIVE IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LOW CONDUCTIVITY; MAGNETIC INDUCTION TOMOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC INDUCTION TOMOGRAPHY (MIT); MEMORY CONSTRAINTS; MUTUAL IMPEDANCE; NON-CONTACT; SPARSE-MATRIX TECHNIQUES;

ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; CONDUCTANCE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FREQUENCY MODULATION; IMAGING SYSTEM; IMPEDANCE; MAGNETIC INDUCTION TOMOGRAPHY; PERMEABILITY; ALGORITHM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HEAD; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HEAD; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77950199344     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2009.2036733     Document Type: Article

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