High Frame Rate Electrical Impedance Tomography System for Monitoring of Regional Lung Ventilation

Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2022 Jul:2022:2487-2490. doi: 10.1109/EMBC48229.2022.9871479.

Abstract

This paper describes the development of a compact high frame rate passive electrical impedance tomography system. The injected current amplitude and frequency can be adjusted to fit any EIT application. Measured results show that the system is capable of high frame rate of 89 fps and has power consumption of 1.7 W. It has automatic gain control that reduces noise and improves the quality of the measured EIT image. A comparison is made with other EIT systems to show the potential of the developed system. Clinical Relevance- The developed EIT system has application in the clinical assessment of neonatal and SARS-Co V-2 patients. In these applications there is an urgent need for a low cost bedside non-invasive imaging system to continuously monitor dynamic changes in regional lung ventilation.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Electric Impedance
  • Humans
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Lung / diagnostic imaging
  • Respiration, Artificial*
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed*