A transputer implemented algorithm for electrical impedance tomography
- 1 August 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Clinical Physics and Physiological Measurement
- Vol. 11 (3) , 223-230
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0143-0815/11/3/005
Abstract
Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) offers a non-invasive technique of great scope for producing clinically important information in a number of medical applications. Initial work by B.H. Brown (1983) used an isopotential approach to solving the complex backprojection problem. In this study a less restrictive algorithm for EIT has been developed based on the work of T.J. Yorkey (1986) and of S. Kaczmarz (1987). Since considerably more processing is required this has been implemented on a transputer in Occam 2 with the aim of achieving real-time imaging. Data were collected, using a Sheffield prototype EIT system, from a test object and a human thorax. Image processing used both the 'Sheffield' and the Yorkey/Kaczmarz algorithms. Initial results indicate that the images generated using the latter approach were more representative of the source impedance distributions.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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