Electrical impedance tomography reconstruction for three-dimensional imaging of the prostate

Physiological Measurement

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Borsic, A ^a   Halter, R ^a   Wan, Y ^a   Hartov, A ^a   Paulsen, K D ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrical impedance tomography; Electrode modeling; Finite element method; Prostate imaging; Three dimensional; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRODES; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATLAB; MESH GENERATION; PROBES; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; UROLOGY;

DOMAIN GEOMETRY; DUAL MESHES; ELECTRICAL IMPE DANCE TOMOGRAPHY (EIT); ELECTRODE MODELS; IMAGING VOLUME; PROBE SURFACE; PROSTATE IMAGING; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASOUND PROBES;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 78149292828     PISSN: 09673334     EISSN: 13616579     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0967-3334/31/8/S01     Document Type: Article

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