Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT)

Tushar Kanti Bera

Postdoctoral Researcher Department of Computational Science and Engineering Yonsei University, Seoul-120-749, South Korea Email: tkbera77@gmail.com Webpage: http://web.yonsei.ac.kr/seoj/bera.htm

Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) is a tomographic imaging technique which reconstructs the spatial distribution of the electrical impedance (conductivity or resistivity) of a closed domain within a volume conductor (object under test) from the voltage-current data measured at the boundary of the domain. An EIT system consists of EIT electronic hardware for current injection and voltage measurement, EIT sensors or surface electrodes with subject or practical phantom and the PC with a computer program called image reconstruction algorithm. EIT is being researched in different areas of science and technology due to its many advantages over other computed tomographic techniques like X-Ray CT, PET, SPECT, MRI etc. Being a non-invasive, non-radiating, portable and inexpensive methodology, EIT has been extensively studied in clinical diagnosis, biomedical engineering and biotechnology. Electrical Impedance tomography can be used for reconstruction of different electrical properties of materials such as electrical conductivity, electrical resistivity and electrical permittivity. Hence we find electrical conductance tomography, electrical resistance tomography and electrical capacitance tomography. References:
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