A method for rapid production of subject specific finite element meshes for electrical impedance tomography of the human head

Physiological Measurement

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 801-816

  Vonach, Martin ^a   Marson, Ben ^a   Yun, Mark ^a   Cardoso, Jorge ^a   Modat, Marc ^a   Ourselin, Sebastien ^a   Holder, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

BRAIN FUNCTIONS; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICAL IMPE DANCE TOMOGRAPHY (EIT); FINITE ELEMENT MESHES; HUMAN HEAD; IMAGES RECONSTRUCTION; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE; SCAN DATA; SPECIFIC FINITE ELEMENT; SUBJECT-SPECIFIC;

MESH GENERATION;

EID: 84860347541     PISSN: 09673334     EISSN: 13616579     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0967-3334/33/5/801     Document Type: Article

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