Direct EIT Reconstructions of Complex Admittivities on a Chest-Shaped Domain in 2-D

• Published in: IEEE transactions on medical imaging 2013-04, Vol.32 (4), p.757-769
• Main Authors: Hamilton, S. J., Mueller, J. L.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Algorithms; biomedical imaging; Computer Simulation; Conductivity; Electric Impedance; Electrodes; Humans; Image Processing, Computer-Assisted - methods; Image reconstruction; Models, Biological; Permittivity; Phantoms, Imaging; Pleural Effusion - pathology; Pneumothorax - pathology; Reconstruction algorithms; Thorax - anatomy & histology; Thorax - pathology; Tomography - instrumentation; Tomography - methods; Voltage measurement
• ISSN: 0278-0062; 1558-254X
• DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2012.2237389

Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is a medical imaging technique in which current is applied on electrodes on the surface of the body, the resulting voltage is measured, and an inverse problem is solved to recover the conductivity and/or permittivity in the interior. Images are then formed from the reconstructed conductivity and permittivity distributions. In the 2-D geometry, EIT is clinically useful for chest imaging. In this work, an implementation of a D-bar method for complex admittivities on a general 2-D domain is presented. In particular, reconstructions are computed on a chest-shaped domain for several realistic phantoms including a simulated pneumothorax, hyperinflation, and pleural effusion. The method demonstrates robustness in the presence of noise. Reconstructions from trigonometric and pairwise current injection patterns are included.