• DocumentCode
    3297796
  • Title

    Full Maxwell Equations as a forward model for EIT in the mammography geometry

  • Author

    Brownell, A.B. ; Isaacson, D. ; Saulnier, G.J. ; Newell, J.C.

  • Author_Institution
    Rensselaer Polytech. Inst., Troy, NY, USA
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    1-3 April 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    Using the full Maxwell Equations model (full model) as a forward model for Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) in the mammography geometry instead of an approximation may be more desirable if the approximations introduce large errors. This paper examines the full model, and the relative errors between the full model and the approximations. We show that at high frequencies there are large relative errors between the full model and the approximations, and thus it may be more appropriate to use the full Maxwell equations as a forward model for EIT in the mammography geometry.
  • Keywords
    Maxwell equations; electric impedance imaging; mammography; medical image processing; EIT; electrical impedance tomography; forward model; full Maxwell equations; mammography geometry; Approximation methods; Computational modeling; Geometry; Mathematical model; Maxwell equations; Permeability; Tomography;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Bioengineering Conference (NEBEC), 2011 IEEE 37th Annual Northeast
  • Conference_Location
    Troy, NY
  • ISSN
    2160-7001
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-61284-827-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/NEBC.2011.5778560
  • Filename
    5778560