A robust current pattern for the detection of intraventricular hemorrhage in neonates using electrical impedance tomography

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2733-2747

  Tang, T ^a   Oh, Sungho ^a   Sadleir, R J ^a  

^a J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

3D EIT reconstruction; Intraventricular bleeding; Localization; Neonatal; Quantification

Indexed keywords

AXIAL POSITIONS; CURRENT PATTERNS; EEG PATTERN; ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRODE LAYOUT; FORWARD MODELS; HEAD MODEL; HUMAN HEAD; NOISE-FREE ENVIRONMENTS; PHANTOM DATA; RING ELECTRODES; RING PATTERNS;

DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; PEDIATRICS; REPAIR; SPHERES;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HEAD; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMPEDANCE; INFANT; INSTRUMENTATION; NEWBORN; PATHOLOGY; SKULL; TOMOGRAPHY;

CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRODES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HEAD; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SKULL; TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77955169436     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: 15739686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10439-010-0003-9     Document Type: Article

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