Three-dimensional impedance imaging device

Details Three-dimensional impedance imaging device Three-dimensional impedance imaging device

2011-08-30

2011-08-30

Hoekstra, Jeffrey G (Department: 3736)

Surgery

Diagnostic testing

Measuring electrical impedance or conductance of body portion

C600S300000, C600S372000, C600S382000, C702S152000

Reexamination Certificate

active

08010187

ABSTRACT:
In a method of electrical impedance tomography (EIT), a mediating fluid provides electrical contact between the electrodes of an EIT device and the skin of a body part to be examined. The height of the fluid is raised or lowered between impedance measurements, enabling tomographic images of the tissue under examination to be resolved mathematically for subsequent viewing. Tomographic planes are isolated by calculating differences between Cartesian models generated from impedance values measured at the plane of interest and at an adjacent plane.

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