Level-set-based reconstruction algorithm for EIT lung images: First clinical results

Physiological Measurement

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 739-750

  Rahmati, Peyman ^a   Soleimani, Manuchehr ^b   Pulletz, Sven ^c   Frerichs, Inéz ^c   Adler, Andy ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

electrical impedance tomography (EIT); finite element models; inverse problems; level set method; shape reconstruction

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

ELECTRICAL IMPE DANCE TOMOGRAPHY (EIT); ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; FINITE ELEMENT MODELLING (FEM); IMAGE REGIONS; LEVEL SET; LEVEL SET METHOD; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; RECONSTRUCTION METHOD; SHAPE RECONSTRUCTION; SMOOTH INTERFACE;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 84860316992     PISSN: 09673334     EISSN: 13616579     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0967-3334/33/5/739     Document Type: Article

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