DocumentCode :
3297269
Title :
Optimizing of electrode system with central object in electrical impedance tomography
Author :
Wang, Yan ; Sha, Hong ; Zhao, Shu ; Ren, Chaoshi
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Biomed. Eng., Chinese Acad. of Med. Sci., Beijing
fYear :
2009
fDate :
9-11 April 2009
Firstpage :
1
Lastpage :
4
Abstract :
Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is one of the important research topics in today´s biomedical engineering. EIT system applies currents through electrodes attached to the surface of the human body and measures the resulting voltages to reconstruct and display approximate pictures of the electric conductivity and permittivity inside the body. Electrode lies in the front of the whole EIT system and contacts with human body directly. It is one of the most sensitive and the pivotal parts of EIT system. The type and the configuration of electrode system influence the reconstruction image greatly, especially for the central area, the deep area of body, where the measurement sensitivity is very low. A simulation platform is developed in the paper to optimize design of the electrode structure parameter based on the coercive equipotential nodes model for the imaging object of central area, the deep area of body. The influences of the different object depths on the measurement sensitivity and the image reconstruction quality have studied by using different electrode types and configurations. The simulation results suggest that optimal selection of electrode types and configurations can helpfully increase the image quality and measurement sensitivity of the image with deeper object. Several type and configuration parameter of EIT electrode that fit for imaging deeper object are also presented.
Keywords :
bioelectric phenomena; biomedical electrodes; electric impedance imaging; electrical conductivity; medical image processing; permittivity; coercive equipotential node; electric conductivity; electrical impedance tomography; electrode structure parameter; electrode system; image quality; image reconstruction; measurement sensitivity; permittivity; voltages; Biomedical electrodes; Biomedical engineering; Biomedical measurements; Conductivity measurement; Current measurement; Humans; Image reconstruction; Surface impedance; Surface reconstruction; Tomography;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Complex Medical Engineering, 2009. CME. ICME International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Tempe, AZ
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3315-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3316-2
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/ICCME.2009.4906580
Filename :
4906580
Link To Document :
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