Statistical estimation of EIT electrode contact impedance using a magic toeplitz matrix

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 58, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2194-2201

  Demidenko, Eugene ^a   Borsic, Andrea ^b   Wan, Yuqing ^b   Halter, Ryan J ^b   Hartov, Alex ^b  

^a Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary value problem; breast cancer; electrical impedance tomography; F test; Laplace equation; Neumann to Dirichlet map

Indexed keywords

BAD CONTACT; BREAST CANCER; ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRODE CONTACTS; ELECTRODE IMPEDANCE; F-TEST; FINITE ELEMENT APPROXIMATIONS; FINITE WIDTH; LINEAR MODEL; NEUMANN-TO-DIRICHLET MAP; SIMULTANEOUS ESTIMATION; STATISTICAL ESTIMATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TOEPLITZ MATRICES;

DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC CONTACTS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRODES; FLUORINE; LAPLACE EQUATION; MATRIX ALGEBRA;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; BREAST; BREAST CANCER; COMPUTER; COMPUTER ASSISTED IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MODEL; PHANTOM; SKIN; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VALIDATION STUDY;

EID: 79960712186     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2011.2125790     Document Type: Article

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