• DocumentCode
    307608
  • Title

    Utility of an esophageal reference electrode for thoracic electrical impedance tomography

  • Author

    Schuessler, Thomas F. ; Bates, Jason H T

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Biomed. Eng., McGill Univ., Montreal, Que., Canada
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    1995
  • fDate
    20-25 Sep 1995
  • Firstpage
    559
  • Abstract
    Image reconstruction in Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) is an ill-conditioned minimization problem. Here, the authors examine the utility of an esophageal reference electrode to improve EIT images. In a computer simulation, a reconstruction scheme utilizing an esophageal electrode outperformed two configurations relying entirely on boundary voltages in terms of both reconstruction error and speed of execution
  • Keywords
    digital simulation; electric impedance imaging; image reconstruction; medical image processing; minimisation; boundary voltages; computer simulation; esophageal reference electrode; execution speed; medical diagnostic imaging; reconstruction error; reconstruction scheme; thoracic electrical impedance tomography; Biomedical electrodes; Biomedical monitoring; Computer errors; Computer simulation; Conductivity; Esophagus; Image reconstruction; Impedance; Tomography; Voltage;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1995., IEEE 17th Annual Conference
  • Conference_Location
    Montreal, Que.
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-2475-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IEMBS.1995.575249
  • Filename
    575249