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Cabezudo Ballesteros S, Sanabria Carretero P, Reinoso Barbero F. Review of electrical impedance tomography in the pediatric patient. REVISTA ESPANOLA DE ANESTESIOLOGIA Y REANIMACION 2024; 71:479-485. [PMID: 38458492 DOI: 10.1016/j.redare.2024.03.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2022] [Accepted: 08/28/2023] [Indexed: 03/10/2024]
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Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is a new method of monitoring non-invasive mechanical ventilation, at the bedside and useful in critically ill patients. It allows lung monitoring of ventilation and perfusion, obtaining images that provide information on lung function. It is based on the physical principle of impedanciometry or the body's ability to conduct an electrical current. Various studies have shown its usefulness both in adults and in pediatrics in respiratory distress syndrome, pneumonia and atelectasis in addition to pulmonary thromboembolism and pulmonary hypertension by also providing information on pulmonary perfusion, and may be very useful in perioperative medicine; especially in pediatrics avoiding repetitive imaging tests with ionizing radiation.
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- Servicio de Anestesia y Reanimación, Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid, Spain
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- Servicio de Anestesia y Reanimación, Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid, Spain
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An X, Liu Y, Zhao Y, Lu S, Stylios GK, Liu Q. Adaptive Motion Artifact Reduction in Wearable ECG Measurements Using Impedance Pneumography Signal. SENSORS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2022; 22:5493. [PMID: 35897997 PMCID: PMC9332869 DOI: 10.3390/s22155493] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2022] [Revised: 07/15/2022] [Accepted: 07/19/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Noise is a common problem in wearable electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring systems because the presence of noise can corrupt the ECG waveform causing inaccurate signal interpretation. By comparison with electromagnetic interference and its minimization, the reduction of motion artifact is more difficult and challenging because its time-frequency characteristics are unpredictable. Based on the characteristics of motion artifacts, this work uses adaptive filtering, a specially designed ECG device, and an Impedance Pneumography (IP) data acquisition system to combat motion artifacts. The newly designed ECG-IP acquisition system maximizes signal correlation by measuring both ECG and IP signals simultaneously using the same pair of electrodes. Signal comparison investigations between ECG and IP signals under five different body motions were carried out, and the Pearson Correlation Coefficient |r| was higher than 0.6 in all cases, indicating a good correlation. To optimize the performance of adaptive motion artifact reduction, the IP signal was filtered to a 5 Hz low-pass filter and then fed into a Recursive Least Squares (RLS) adaptive filter as a reference input signal. The performance of the proposed motion artifact reduction method was evaluated subjectively and objectively, and the results proved that the method could suppress the motion artifacts and achieve minimal distortion to the denoised ECG signal.
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- Xiang An
- Academy of Artificial Intelligence, Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology, Beijing 102617, China; (X.A.); (Y.L.); (Y.Z.); (S.L.); (Q.L.)
- Beijing Academy of Safety Engineering and Technology, Beijing 102617, China
- Research Institute for Flexible Materials, School of Textiles and Design, Heriot-Watt University, Galashiels TD1 3HF, UK
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- Academy of Artificial Intelligence, Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology, Beijing 102617, China; (X.A.); (Y.L.); (Y.Z.); (S.L.); (Q.L.)
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- Academy of Artificial Intelligence, Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology, Beijing 102617, China; (X.A.); (Y.L.); (Y.Z.); (S.L.); (Q.L.)
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- Academy of Artificial Intelligence, Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology, Beijing 102617, China; (X.A.); (Y.L.); (Y.Z.); (S.L.); (Q.L.)
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- Research Institute for Flexible Materials, School of Textiles and Design, Heriot-Watt University, Galashiels TD1 3HF, UK
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- Academy of Artificial Intelligence, Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology, Beijing 102617, China; (X.A.); (Y.L.); (Y.Z.); (S.L.); (Q.L.)
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Bawua LK, Miaskowski C, Suba S, Badilini F, Mortara D, Hu X, Rodway GW, Hoffmann TJ, Pelter MM. Agreement between respiratory rate measurement using a combined electrocardiographic derived method versus impedance from pneumography. J Electrocardiol 2021; 71:16-24. [PMID: 35007832 DOI: 10.1016/j.jelectrocard.2021.12.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2021] [Revised: 12/15/2021] [Accepted: 12/20/2021] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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BACKGROUND Impedance pneumography (IP) is the current device-driven method used to measure respiratory rate (RR) in hospitalized patients. However, RR alarms are common and contribute to alarm fatigue. While RR derived from electrocardiographic (ECG) waveforms hold promise, they have not been compared to the IP method. PURPOSE Study examined the agreement between the IP and combined-ECG derived (EDR) for normal RR (≥12 or ≤20 breaths/minute [bpm]); low RR (≤5 bpm); and high RR (≥30 bpm). METHODOLOGY One-hundred intensive care unit patients were included by RR group: (1) normal RR (n = 50; 25 low RR and 25 high RR); (2) low RR (n = 50); and (3) high RR (n = 50). Bland-Altman analysis was used to evaluate agreement. RESULTS For normal RR, a significant bias difference of -1.00 + 2.11 (95% CI -1.60 to -0.40) and 95% limit of agreement (LOA) of -5.13 to 3.13 was found. For low RR, a significant bias difference of -16.54 + 6.02 (95% CI: -18.25 to -14.83) and a 95% LOA of -28.33 to - 4.75 was found. For high RR, a significant bias difference of 17.94 + 12.01 (95% CI: 14.53 to 21.35) and 95% LOA of -5.60 to 41.48 was found. CONCLUSION Combined-EDR method had good agreement with the IP method for normal RR. However, for the low RR, combined-EDR was consistently higher than the IP method and almost always lower for the high RR, which could reduce the number of RR alarms. However, replication in a larger sample including confirmation with visual assessment is warranted.
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- Linda K Bawua
- School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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- School of Nursing, University of Rochester, NY, USA.
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- School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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- School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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- School of Nursing, Duke University Durham, NC, USA.
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- School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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- School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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Kadir MA, Wilson AJ, Siddique-e Rabbani K. A Multi-Frequency Focused Impedance Measurement System Based on Analogue Synchronous Peak Detection. FRONTIERS IN ELECTRONICS 2021. [DOI: 10.3389/felec.2021.791016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Monitoring of anatomical structures and physiological processes by electrical impedance has attracted scientists as it is noninvasive, nonionizing and the instrumentation is relatively simple. Focused Impedance Method (FIM) is attractive in this context, as it has enhanced sensitivity at the central region directly beneath the electrode configuration minimizing contribution from neighboring regions. FIM essentially adds or averages two concentric and orthogonal combinations of conventional Tetrapolar Impedance Measurements (TPIM) and has three versions with 4, 6, and 8 electrodes. This paper describes the design and testing of a multi-frequency FIM (MFFIM) system capable of measuring all three versions of FIM at 8 frequencies in the range 10 kHz—1 MHz. A microcontroller based multi-frequency signal generator and a balanced Howland current source with high output impedance (476 kΩ at 10 kHz and 58.3 kΩ at 1 MHz) were implemented for driving currents into biological tissues with an error <1%. The measurements were carried out at each frequency sequentially. The peak values of the amplified voltage signals were measured using a novel analogue synchronous peak detection technique from which the transfer impedances were obtained. The developed system was tested using TPIM measurements on a passive RC Cole network placed between two RC networks, the latter representing skin-electrode contact impedances. Overall accuracy of the measurement was very good (error <4% at all frequencies except 1 MHz, with error 6%) and the resolution was 0.1 Ω. The designed MFFIM system had a sampling rate of >45 frames per second which was deemed adequate for noninvasive real-time impedance measurements on biological tissues.
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Hung PD, Dan CQ, Hai VD. A method for suppressing respiratory noise in impedance cardiography and comprehensive assessment of noise reduction performance. J Med Eng Technol 2021; 46:116-128. [PMID: 34882056 DOI: 10.1080/03091902.2021.2007304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Cardiac Output (CO) is a significant hemodynamic index for the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular diseases. Impedance cardiography (ICG) is one of the non-invasive methods widely investigated for its simplicity, cost-effectiveness and ability to measure cardiac output continuously. However, measured ICG signals are contaminated by the respiratory artefact leading to difficulties in determining characteristic points in the signal waveform, thereby lowering the accuracy of measurement results. Thus, suppressing this artefact plays an important role in ICG signal processing. This paper aims to propose a method of noise filtering to improve the quality of the signal as well as a model to evaluate the noise filtering efficiency of the method. The proposed algorithm showed promising results with the output SNR values of 21.99 ± 3.20 dB, 20.40 ± 2.88 dB, 15.57 ± 4.79 dB for normal breathing, forced breathing, and rapid breathing respectively. The root mean square percentage error (RMSPE) values of the output signals processed by the proposed algorithm compared to the standard ICG signal source for normal breathing, forced breathing, and rapid breathing are 24.13 ± 22.66%, 18.09 ± 12.98%, 32.13 ± 20.40% respectively. The quality-enhanced ICG signal could be effective tool for assisting doctors to detect cardiac abnormalities via evaluating the morphology of ICG signal waveforms as well as improving accuracy in calculating beat-to-beat and averaged hemodynamic parameters.
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- Phan Dang Hung
- Biomedical Electronics Center, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam
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- Biomedical Electronics Center, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam
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- Biomedical Electronics Center, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam
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Shi Y, Yang Z, Xie F, Ren S, Xu S. The Research Progress of Electrical Impedance Tomography for Lung Monitoring. Front Bioeng Biotechnol 2021; 9:726652. [PMID: 34660553 PMCID: PMC8517404 DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2021.726652] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2021] [Accepted: 08/09/2021] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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Medical imaging can intuitively show people the internal structure, morphological information, and organ functions of the organism, which is one of the most important inspection methods in clinical medical diagnosis. Currently used medical imaging methods can only be applied to some diagnostic occasions after qualitative lesions have been generated, and the general imaging technology is usually accompanied by radiation and other conditions. However, electrical impedance tomography has the advantages of being noninvasive and non-radiative. EIT (Electrical Impedance Tomography) is also widely used in the early diagnosis and treatment of some diseases because of these advantages. At present, EIT is relatively mature and more and more image reconstruction algorithms are used to improve imaging resolution. Hardware technology is also developing rapidly, and the accuracy of data collection and processing is continuously improving. In terms of clinical application, EIT has also been used for pathological treatment of lungs, the brain, and the bladder. In the future, EIT has a good application prospect in the medical field, which can meet the needs of real-time, long-term monitoring and early diagnosis. Aiming at the application of EIT in the treatment of lung pathology, this article reviews the research progress of EIT, image reconstruction algorithms, hardware system design, and clinical applications used in the treatment of lung diseases. Through the research and introduction of several core components of EIT technology, it clarifies the characteristics of EIT system complexity and its solutions, provides research ideas for subsequent research, and once again verifies the broad development prospects of EIT technology in the future.
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- Yan Shi
- The School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China
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- The School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China
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- The School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China
- State Key Laboratory of Fluid Power and Mechatronic Systems, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- The School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China
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Non-Contact Video-Based Assessment of the Respiratory Function Using a RGB-D Camera. SENSORS 2021; 21:s21165605. [PMID: 34451047 PMCID: PMC8402324 DOI: 10.3390/s21165605] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2021] [Revised: 08/14/2021] [Accepted: 08/17/2021] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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A fully automatic, non-contact method for the assessment of the respiratory function is proposed using an RGB-D camera-based technology. The proposed algorithm relies on the depth channel of the camera to estimate the movements of the body’s trunk during breathing. It solves in fixed-time complexity, O(1), as the acquisition relies on the mean depth value of the target regions only using the color channels to automatically locate them. This simplicity allows the extraction of real-time values of the respiration, as well as the synchronous assessment on multiple body parts. Two different experiments have been performed: a first one conducted on 10 users in a single region and with a fixed breathing frequency, and a second one conducted on 20 users considering a simultaneous acquisition in two regions. The breath rate has then been computed and compared with a reference measurement. The results show a non-statistically significant bias of 0.11 breaths/min and 96% limits of agreement of −2.21/2.34 breaths/min regarding the breath-by-breath assessment. The overall real-time assessment shows a RMSE of 0.21 breaths/min. We have shown that this method is suitable for applications where respiration needs to be monitored in non-ambulatory and static environments.
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Sima RM, Findeklee S, Bădărău IA, Poenaru MO, Scheau C, Pleș L. Comparison of maternal third trimester hemodynamics between singleton pregnancy and twin pregnancy. J Perinat Med 2021; 49:566-571. [PMID: 33567181 DOI: 10.1515/jpm-2020-0169] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2020] [Accepted: 01/04/2021] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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OBJECTIVES The impedance cardiography (ICG) technique measures the variation of impedance in the thorax due to the physical contractile activity of the heart. Twin pregnancy is characterized by greater maternal hemodynamic changes than a singleton pregnancy. METHODS In a study on 121 pregnant women in the last trimester we performed ICG, evaluating the following hemodynamic parameters: stroke volume, heart rate, cardiac output, ventricular ejection time, left ventricular ejection time, thoracic impedance, and systemic vascular resistance. RESULTS The study included singleton and twin pregnancies. Heart rate values in women with single fetus was lower than in those carrying twins (85 vs. 100 beats/min, p=0.021) as were the stroke volume values (64 vs. 83 mL, p=0.010) and the cardiac output (p<0.0001). Systemic vascular resistance decreased in twin pregnancies compared to singleton pregnancy (p=0.023). CONCLUSIONS ICG studies are rare, and the validation of their results is an ongoing process. However, the ICG technique is applicable in the third trimester of pregnancy and can yield important information regarding the hemodynamic profile of singleton and twin pregnancies, revealing maternal heart changes specific to twin pregnancies.
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- Romina-Marina Sima
- The "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania.,The "Bucur" Maternity, "Saint John" Hospital, Bucharest, Romania
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- Department for Gynecology, Obstetrics and Reproductive Medicine, Saarland University Hospital Homburg, Homburg, Germany.,Fertility Center Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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- The "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania
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- The "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania.,The "Bucur" Maternity, "Saint John" Hospital, Bucharest, Romania
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- The "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania
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- The "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania.,The "Bucur" Maternity, "Saint John" Hospital, Bucharest, Romania
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Raisis AL, Mosing M, Hosgood GL, Secombe CJ, Adler A, Waldmann AD. The use of electrical impedance tomography (EIT) to evaluate pulse rate in anaesthetised horses. Vet J 2021; 273:105694. [PMID: 34148609 DOI: 10.1016/j.tvjl.2021.105694] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2020] [Revised: 05/04/2021] [Accepted: 05/12/2021] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) provides clinically useful lung images; however, it would be an advantage to extract additional cardiovascular information from the data. The aim of this study was to evaluate if cardiac-related changes measured by EIT can be used to measure pulse rate (PR) under physiological as well as high and low blood pressure states in anaesthetised horses. Electrical impedance tomography data and PR from seven horses anaesthetised in dorsal recumbency were recorded over 1 min during mechanical ventilation and 1 min of apnoea. Data were collected at four measurement time points; before and during intravenous administration of nitroprusside and phenylephrine, respectively. Nine pixels, estimated to represent the heart, were chosen from the EIT image. A novel algorithm detected peaks of impedance change for these pixels over 10 s intervals. Concurrent PR measured using an invasive blood pressure trace, was recorded every 10 s. EIT- and pulse-rate data were compared using Bland-Altman assessment for multiple measurements on each horse. Overall, 288 paired datasets from six of seven horses were available for analysis. There was excellent agreement for baseline measurements, as well as during hypertension and hypotension, with a bias of -0.26 and lower and upper limit of agreement at -2.22 (95% confidence intervals [CI], -2.89 to -1.86) and 1.69 (95% CI, 1.34-2.36) beats per min, respectively. EIT can be used to evaluate PR using cardiac-related impedance changes. More work is required to determine bias that might occur in anaesthetised horses in other recumbencies or clinical situations.
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- A L Raisis
- School of Veterinary Medicine, College of SHEE, Murdoch University, South Street, Perth, WA, Australia
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- School of Veterinary Medicine, College of SHEE, Murdoch University, South Street, Perth, WA, Australia.
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- School of Veterinary Medicine, College of SHEE, Murdoch University, South Street, Perth, WA, Australia
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- School of Veterinary Medicine, College of SHEE, Murdoch University, South Street, Perth, WA, Australia
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- Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Rostock University Medical Center, Rostock, Germany
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Pichler C, Ranftl S, Heller A, Arrigoni E, von der Linden W. Bayesian source separation of electrical bioimpedance signals. Biomed Signal Process Control 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bspc.2021.102541] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Lu Y, Wu HT, Malik J. Recycling cardiogenic artifacts in impedance pneumography. Biomed Signal Process Control 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bspc.2019.02.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Shi F, Steuer A, Zhuang J, Kolb JF. Bioimpedance Analysis of Epithelial Monolayers after Exposure to Nanosecond Pulsed Electric Fields. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 2018; 66:2010-2021. [PMID: 30452351 DOI: 10.1109/tbme.2018.2882299] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Exposures to pulsed electric fields (PEFs) are known to affect cell membranes and consequently also cell-cell interactions as well as associated characteristics. Bioimpedance analysis offers direct and non-invasive insights into structural and functional changes of cell membranes and extracellular matrices through a rigorous evaluation of electrical parameters. Accordingly, the multi-frequency impedance of confluent monolayers of rat liver epithelial WB-F344 cells was monitored in situ before and after exposure to nanosecond PEFs (nsPEFs). The results were fitted by two Cole models in series to obtain the Cole parameters for the monolayer. For an interpretation of the results, dielectric parameters, were correlated with changes of the TJ protein zonula occludens (ZO-1) and the paracellular permeability of the monolayer Cole parameters in general change as a function of pulse number and time. The findings demonstrate that impedance analysis is an effective method to monitor changes of TJs cell-cell contacts and paracellular permeability and relate them to exposure parameters.
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Krueger-Ziolek S, Schullcke B, Gong B, Müller-Lisse U, Moeller K. EIT based pulsatile impedance monitoring during spontaneous breathing in cystic fibrosis. Physiol Meas 2018; 38:1214-1225. [PMID: 28530203 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6579/aa69d5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Evaluating the lung function in patients with obstructive lung disease by electrical impedance tomography (EIT) usually requires breathing maneuvers containing deep inspirations and forced expirations. Since these maneuvers strongly depend on the patient's co-operation and health status, normal tidal breathing was investigated in an attempt to develop continuous maneuver-free measurements. APPROACH Ventilation related and pulsatile impedance changes were systematically analyzed during normal tidal breathing in 12 cystic fibrosis (CF) patients and 12 lung-healthy controls (HL). Tidal breaths were subdivided into three inspiratory (In1, In2, In3) and three expiratory (Ex1, Ex2, Ex3) sections of the same amplitude of global impedance change. Maximal changes of the ventilation and the pulsatile impedance signal occurring during these sections were determined (▵I V and ▵I P). Differences in ▵I V and ▵I P among sections were ascertained in relation to the first inspiratory section. In addition, ▵I V/▵I P was calculated for each section. MAIN RESULTS Medians of changes in ▵I V were <0.05% in all sections for both subject groups. Both groups showed a similar pattern of ▵I P changes during tidal breathing. Changes in ▵I P first decreased during inspiration (In2), then increased towards the end of inspiration (In3) and reached a maximum at the beginning of expiration (Ex1). During the last two sections of expiration (Ex2, Ex3) ▵I P changes decreased. The CF patients showed higher variations in ▵I P changes compared to the controls (CF: -426.5%, HL: -158.1%, coefficient of variation). Furthermore, ▵I V/▵I P significantly differed between expiratory sections for the CF patients (Ex1-Ex2, p < 0.01; Ex1-Ex3, p < 0.001; Ex2-Ex3, p < 0.05), but not for the controls. No significant differences in ▵I V/▵I P between inspiratory sections were determined for both groups. SIGNIFICANCE Differences in ▵I P changes and in ▵I V/▵I P between both subject groups were speculated to be caused by higher breathing efforts of the CF patients due to airway obstruction leading to higher intrathoracic pressures, and thus to greater changes in lung perfusion.
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- Sabine Krueger-Ziolek
- Institute of Technical Medicine, Furtwangen University, Jakob-Kienzle-Straße 17, 78054 Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany. Department of Radiology, LMU University of Munich, Ziemssenstrasse 1, 80336 Munich, Germany3
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Electrical impedance tomography: Amplitudes of cardiac related impedance changes in the lung are highly position dependent. PLoS One 2017; 12:e0188313. [PMID: 29145478 PMCID: PMC5690592 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0188313] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2017] [Accepted: 11/03/2017] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is used on the thorax to measure impedance changes due to the presence of air and blood in the lung. This experimental study was performed to investigate the effect of posture on cardiac and respiratory related impedance changes. METHODS EIT measurements were performed on 14 healthy subjects in left-, right lateral, prone, supine and upright positions. Simultaneously, tidal volume was recorded with an ultrasonic flowmeter. For image reconstruction, the classic Sheffield back-projection and three variants of the modern GREIT algorithm were applied with two different reference frames. Amplitudes of cardiac- and respiratory impedance changes were extracted and compared between the positions. RESULTS We found significant differences in both cardiac and respiratory amplitudes between postures. Especially, supine and upright positions showed dramatic changes in amplitude. These differences between postures were unaffected by the change of reference frames in all reconstruction methods except of the classic Sheffield back projection. Possible sources that explain the observed posture dependency are discussed. CONCLUSION Researchers and clinicians need to be aware of this phenomenon when comparing EIT amplitudes in different body positions.
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Helwan A, Idoko JB, Abiyev RH. Machine learning techniques for classification of breast tissue. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.procs.2017.11.256] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Pettersen FJ, Martinsen ØG, Høgetveit JO, Kalvøy H, Odland HH. Bioimpedance measurements of temporal changes in beating hearts. Biomed Phys Eng Express 2016. [DOI: 10.1088/2057-1976/2/6/065015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Mallam M, Rao KCB. Efficient reference-free adaptive artifact cancellers for impedance cardiography based remote health care monitoring systems. SPRINGERPLUS 2016; 5:770. [PMID: 27386256 PMCID: PMC4912518 DOI: 10.1186/s40064-016-2461-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2016] [Accepted: 05/29/2016] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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In this paper, a new model for adaptive artifact cancelation in impedance cardiography (ICG) signals is presented. It is a hybrid model based on wavelet decomposition and an adaptive filter. A novel feature of this model is the implementation of reference-free adaptive artifact cancellers (AAC). For this implementation, the reference signal is constructed using a wavelet transformation. During critical conditions the filter weights may be negative and cause an imbalance in the convergence. To overcome this problem, we introduce non-negative adaptive algorithms in the proposed artifact canceller. To accelerate the performance of the AAC, we propose exponential non-negative and normalized non-negative algorithms to update the filter coefficients. The computational complexity of the filtering section in a remote health care system is important to avoid inter-symbol interference of the incoming samples. This can be achieved by combining sign-based algorithms with the adaptive filtering section. Finally, several AACs are developed using variants of the non-negative algorithms and performance measures are computed and compared. All of the proposed AACs are tested on actual ICG signals. Among the AACs evaluated, sign regressor normalized non-negative LMS (SRN(3)LMS) based adaptive artifact canceller achieves highest signal to noise ratio (SNR). The SNR achieved by this algorithm in baseline wander artifact elimination is 8.5312 dBs, in electrode muscle artifact elimination is 7.5908 dBs and in impedance measurement artifact elimination is 8.4231 dBs.
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- Madhavi Mallam
- Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Kakinada, AP 533003 India
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- Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, JNTUK, University College of Engineering, Vizianagaram, AP 535002 India
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Rashid A, Kim S, Liu D, Kim KY. A dynamic oppositional biogeography-based optimization approach for time-varying electrical impedance tomography. Physiol Meas 2016; 37:820-42. [PMID: 27203482 DOI: 10.1088/0967-3334/37/6/820] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Dynamic electrical impedance tomography-based image reconstruction using conventional algorithms such as the extended Kalman filter often exhibits inferior performance due to the presence of measurement noise, the inherent ill-posed nature of the problem and its critical dependence on the selection of the initial guess as well as the state evolution model. Moreover, many of these conventional algorithms require the calculation of a Jacobian matrix. This paper proposes a dynamic oppositional biogeography-based optimization (OBBO) technique to estimate the shape, size and location of the non-stationary region boundaries, expressed as coefficients of truncated Fourier series, inside an object domain using electrical impedance tomography. The conductivity of the object domain is assumed to be known a priori. Dynamic OBBO is a novel addition to the family of dynamic evolutionary algorithms. Moreover, it is the first such study on the application of dynamic evolutionary algorithms for dynamic electrical impedance tomography-based image reconstruction. The performance of the algorithm is tested through numerical simulations and experimental study and is compared with state-of-the-art gradient-based extended Kalman filter. The dynamic OBBO is shown to be far superior compared to the extended Kalman filter. It is found to be robust to measurement noise as well as the initial guess, and does not rely on a priori knowledge of the state evolution model.
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- A Rashid
- Faculty of Computer Sciences and Engineering, GIK Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Topi, Swabi, Pakistan
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Mukkamala R, Hahn JO, Inan OT, Mestha LK, Kim CS, Töreyin H, Kyal S. Toward Ubiquitous Blood Pressure Monitoring via Pulse Transit Time: Theory and Practice. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 2015; 62:1879-901. [PMID: 26057530 PMCID: PMC4515215 DOI: 10.1109/tbme.2015.2441951] [Citation(s) in RCA: 378] [Impact Index Per Article: 42.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Ubiquitous blood pressure (BP) monitoring is needed to improve hypertension detection and control and is becoming feasible due to recent technological advances such as in wearable sensing. Pulse transit time (PTT) represents a well-known potential approach for ubiquitous BP monitoring. The goal of this review is to facilitate the achievement of reliable ubiquitous BP monitoring via PTT. We explain the conventional BP measurement methods and their limitations; present models to summarize the theory of the PTT-BP relationship; outline the approach while pinpointing the key challenges; overview the previous work toward putting the theory to practice; make suggestions for best practice and future research; and discuss realistic expectations for the approach.
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- Ramakrishna Mukkamala
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA (phone: 517-353-3120; fax: 517-353-1980; )
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA,
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- The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30308, USA,
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- Palo Alto Research Center East (a Xerox Company), Webster, NY, 14580, USA,
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA,
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- The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30308, USA,
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- Palo Alto Research Center East (a Xerox Company), Webster, NY, 14580, USA,
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Roth CJ, Ehrl A, Becher T, Frerichs I, Schittny JC, Weiler N, Wall WA. Correlation between alveolar ventilation and electrical properties of lung parenchyma. Physiol Meas 2015; 36:1211-26. [DOI: 10.1088/0967-3334/36/6/1211] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Dodd M, Mueller JL. A Real-time D-bar Algorithm for 2-D Electrical Impedance Tomography Data. INVERSE PROBLEMS AND IMAGING (SPRINGFIELD, MO.) 2014; 8:1013-1031. [PMID: 25937856 PMCID: PMC4414053 DOI: 10.3934/ipi.2014.8.1013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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The aim of this paper is to show the feasibility of the D-bar method for real-time 2-D EIT reconstructions. A fast implementation of the D-bar method for reconstructing conductivity changes on a 2-D chest-shaped domain is described. Cross-sectional difference images from the chest of a healthy human subject are presented, demonstrating what can be achieved in real time. The images constitute the first D-bar images from EIT data on a human subject collected on a pairwise current injection system.
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- Melody Dodd
- Department of Mathematics, Colorado State University, USA
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- Department of Mathematics and School of Biomedical Engineering, Colorado State University, USA
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Zhao Z, Frerichs I, Pulletz S, Müller-Lisse U, Möller K. The influence of image reconstruction algorithms on linear thorax EIT image analysis of ventilation. Physiol Meas 2014; 35:1083-93. [DOI: 10.1088/0967-3334/35/6/1083] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Zhao Z, Pulletz S, Frerichs I, Müller-Lisse U, Möller K. The EIT-based global inhomogeneity index is highly correlated with regional lung opening in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome. BMC Res Notes 2014; 7:82. [PMID: 24502320 PMCID: PMC3922336 DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-7-82] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2013] [Accepted: 02/04/2014] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The electrical impedance tomography (EIT)-based global inhomogeneity (GI) index was introduced to quantify tidal volume distribution within the lung. Up to now, the GI index was evaluated for plausibility but the analysis of how it is influenced by various physiological factors is still missing. The aim of our study was to evaluate the influence of proportion of open lung regions measured by EIT on the GI index. METHODS A constant low-flow inflation maneuver was performed in 18 acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) patients (58 ± 14 years, mean age ± SD) and 8 lung-healthy patients (41 ± 12 years) under controlled mechanical ventilation. EIT raw data were acquired at 25 scans/s and reconstructed offline. Recruited lung regions were identified as those image pixels of the lung regions within the EIT scans where local impedance amplitudes exceeded 10% of the maximum amplitude during the maneuver. A series of GI indices was calculated during mechanical lung inflation, based on the differential images obtained between different time points. Respiratory system elastance (Ers) values were calculated at 10 lung volume levels during low-flow maneuver. RESULTS The GI index decreased during low-flow inflation, while the percentage of open lung regions increased. The values correlated highly in both ARDS (r2 = 0.88 ± 0.08, p < 0.01) and lung-healthy patients (r2 = 0.92 ± 0.05, p < 0.01). Ers and GI index were also significantly correlated in 16 out of 18 ARDS (r2 = 0.84 ± 0.13, p < 0.01) and in 6 out of 8 lung-healthy patients (r2 = 0.84 ± 0.07, p < 0.01). Significant differences were found in GI values between two groups (0.52 ± 0.21 for ARDS and 0.41 ± 0.04 for lung-healthy patients, p < 0.05) as well in Ers values (0.017 ± 0.008 cmH2O/ml for ARDS and 0.009 ± 0.001 cmH2O/ml for lung-healthy patients, p < 0.01). CONCLUSIONS We conclude that the GI index is a reliable measure of ventilation heterogeneity highly correlated with lung recruitability measured with EIT. The GI index may prove to be a useful EIT-based index to guide ventilation therapy.
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- Zhanqi Zhao
- Institute of Technical Medicine, Furtwangen University, Jakob-Kienzle Straße 17, D-78054 VS-Schwenningen, Germany.
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Mhajna M, Abboud S. Assessment of cardiac stroke volume in patients with implanted cardiac pacemaker using parametric electrical impedance tomography: a theoretical 2D study. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR NUMERICAL METHODS IN BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING 2013; 29:630-640. [PMID: 23606371 DOI: 10.1002/cnm.2550] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2012] [Revised: 02/04/2013] [Accepted: 02/25/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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The present theoretical study examines the ability to estimate cardiac stroke volume (CSV) in patients with implanted cardiac pacemaker using parametric electrical impedance tomography (pEIT) in a 2D computerized model of the thorax. CSV is a direct indicator of the cardiac pumping efficiency. The commonly used methods for measuring CSV require the invasive procedure of right heart catheterization or use expensive imaging techniques (i.e., MRI). Hence, experience with these techniques for diagnosis and monitoring has been limited to hospitalized patients. In the present study, pEIT scheme was applied in a computerized 2D model of the human thorax with implanted cardiac device to determine the left ventricular (LV) volume at different cardiac cycle phases. The LV was simulated as a prolate ellipse with its axes' lengths as the reconstruction parameters while all other geometries and conductivity values remained constant. An optimization was carried out in order to ensure that the ellipse is the appropriate model for the LV at each cardiac cycle phase. LV volumes calculated by both the pEIT algorithm and the ellipsoid model are consistent. A high correlation (ρ = 0.99) between the true and reconstructed volumes was found. The SV calculation error was ∼1%. The results suggest that the LV volume can be estimated using the pEIT method in a 2D computerized model, and that the method has the potential to be used for monitoring patients with implanted cardiac pacemaker.
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- Muhammad Mhajna
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
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Zhao Z, Frerichs I, Pulletz S, Müller-Lisse U, Möller K. Does thorax EIT image analysis depend on the image reconstruction method? ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2013. [DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/434/1/012040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Hamilton SJ, Mueller JL. Direct EIT reconstructions of complex admittivities on a chest-shaped domain in 2-D. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MEDICAL IMAGING 2013; 32:757-769. [PMID: 23314771 DOI: 10.1109/tmi.2012.2237389] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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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.
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- Sarah J Hamilton
- Department of Mathematics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA.
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Sanchez B, Louarroudi E, Jorge E, Cinca J, Bragos R, Pintelon R. A new measuring and identification approach for time-varying bioimpedance using multisine electrical impedance spectroscopy. Physiol Meas 2013; 34:339-57. [PMID: 23442821 DOI: 10.1088/0967-3334/34/3/339] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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The bioimpedance measurement/identification of time-varying biological systems Z(ω, t) by means of electrical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) is still a challenge today. This paper presents a novel measurement and identification approach, the so-called parametric-in-time approach, valid for time-varying (bio-)impedance systems with a (quasi) periodic character. The technique is based on multisine EIS. Contrary to the widely used nonparametric-in-time strategy, the (bio-)impedance Z(ω, t) is assumed to be time-variant during the measurement interval. Therefore, time-varying spectral analysis tools are required. This new parametric-in-time measuring/identification technique has experimentally been validated through three independent sets of in situ measurements of in vivo myocardial impedance. We show that the time-varying myocardial impedance Z(ω, t) is dominantly periodically time varying (PTV), denoted as ZPTV(ω, t). From the temporal analysis of ZPTV(ω, t), we demonstrate that it is possible to decompose ZPTV(ω, t) into a(n) (in)finite sum of fundamental (bio-)impedance spectra, the so-called harmonic impedance spectra (HIS) Zk(ω)s with [Formula: see text]. This is similar to the well-known Fourier series of a periodic signal, but now understood at the level of a periodic system's frequency response. The HIS Zk(ω)s for [Formula: see text] actually summarize in the bi-frequency (ω, k) domain all the temporal in-cycle information about the periodic changes of Z(ω, t). For the particular case k = 0 (i.e. on the ω-axis), Z0(ω) reflects the mean in-cycle behavior of the time-varying bioimpedance. Finally, the HIS Zk(ω)s are directly identified from noisy current and voltage myocardium measurements at the multisine measurement frequencies (i.e. nonparametric-in-frequency).
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- B Sanchez
- Electronic and Biomedical Instrumentation Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC), E-08034 Barcelona, Spain.
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Regional ventilation in cystic fibrosis measured by electrical impedance tomography. J Cyst Fibros 2012; 11:412-8. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jcf.2012.03.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2011] [Revised: 03/24/2012] [Accepted: 03/25/2012] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Hamilton SJ, Herrera CNL, Mueller JL, Von Herrmann A. A direct D-bar reconstruction algorithm for recovering a complex conductivity in 2-D. INVERSE PROBLEMS 2012; 28:095005. [PMID: 23641121 PMCID: PMC3638890 DOI: 10.1088/0266-5611/28/9/095005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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A direct reconstruction algorithm for complex conductivities in W2,∞ (Ω), where Ω is a bounded, simply connected Lipschitz domain in ℝ2, is presented. The framework is based on the uniqueness proof by Francini [Inverse Problems 20 2000], but equations relating the Dirichlet-to-Neumann to the scattering transform and the exponentially growing solutions are not present in that work, and are derived here. The algorithm constitutes the first D-bar method for the reconstruction of conductivities and permittivities in two dimensions. Reconstructions of numerically simulated chest phantoms with discontinuities at the organ boundaries are included.
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- S J Hamilton
- Department of Mathematics, Colorado State University, USA
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Nguyen DT, Jin C, Thiagalingam A, McEwan AL. A review on electrical impedance tomography for pulmonary perfusion imaging. Physiol Meas 2012; 33:695-706. [DOI: 10.1088/0967-3334/33/5/695] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Choi SW, Park SM. Analysis of Left Ventricular Impedance in Comparison With Ultrasound Images. Artif Organs 2011; 36:479-86. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1594.2011.01381.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Nebuya S, Mills GH, Milnes P, Brown BH. Indirect measurement of lung density and air volume from electrical impedance tomography (EIT) data. Physiol Meas 2011; 32:1953-67. [DOI: 10.1088/0967-3334/32/12/006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Borges JB, Suarez-Sipmann F, Bohm SH, Tusman G, Melo A, Maripuu E, Sandström M, Park M, Costa ELV, Hedenstierna G, Amato M. Regional lung perfusion estimated by electrical impedance tomography in a piglet model of lung collapse. J Appl Physiol (1985) 2011; 112:225-36. [PMID: 21960654 DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.01090.2010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 118] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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The assessment of the regional match between alveolar ventilation and perfusion in critically ill patients requires simultaneous measurements of both parameters. Ideally, assessment of lung perfusion should be performed in real-time with an imaging technology that provides, through fast acquisition of sequential images, information about the regional dynamics or regional kinetics of an appropriate tracer. We present a novel electrical impedance tomography (EIT)-based method that quantitatively estimates regional lung perfusion based on first-pass kinetics of a bolus of hypertonic saline contrast. Pulmonary blood flow was measured in six piglets during control and unilateral or bilateral lung collapse conditions. The first-pass kinetics method showed good agreement with the estimates obtained by single-photon-emission computerized tomography (SPECT). The mean difference (SPECT minus EIT) between fractional blood flow to lung areas suffering atelectasis was -0.6%, with a SD of 2.9%. This method outperformed the estimates of lung perfusion based on impedance pulsatility. In conclusion, we describe a novel method based on EIT for estimating regional lung perfusion at the bedside. In both healthy and injured lung conditions, the distribution of pulmonary blood flow as assessed by EIT agreed well with the one obtained by SPECT. The method proposed in this study has the potential to contribute to a better understanding of the behavior of regional perfusion under different lung and therapeutic conditions.
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- João Batista Borges
- Department of Surgical Sciences, Section of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
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Humphreys S, Pham TMT, Stocker C, Schibler A. The effect of induction of anesthesia and intubation on end-expiratory lung level and regional ventilation distribution in cardiac children. Paediatr Anaesth 2011; 21:887-93. [PMID: 21395895 DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9592.2011.03547.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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BACKGROUND During the induction of anesthesia, changes in functional residual capacity and ventilation distribution (VD) occur. Although these physiological changes are well investigated in adults, little data are available in infants and children. AIM To describe continuous changes in lung physiology during the induction of anesthesia in infants and children using electrical impedance tomography (EIT). METHODS Lung mechanics and volume changes in 38 infants and children undergoing elective cardiac surgery were assessed using EIT before, during, and after the induction of anesthesia. End-expiratory level (EEL as an equivalent to FRC) and VD were measured with EIT and referenced to a period of spontaneous breathing prior to induction. RESULTS EEL changed significantly during induction with the lowest during the intubation phase and normalized with the application of positive end-expiratory pressures (PEEP) after induction. Ventilation prior to induction was preferentially distributed toward the dependent lung, whereas after induction, the nondependent lung was better ventilated. PEEP during mechanical ventilation did not improve ventilation inhomogeneity. CONCLUSION Lung volume and mechanics deteriorate significantly during the induction of anesthesia and remain altered during mechanical ventilation.
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- Susan Humphreys
- Paediatric Critical Care Research Group, Mater Children's Hospital, South Brisbane, Qld., Australia
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Riera J, Riu PJ, Casan P, Masclans JR. [Electrical impedance tomography in acute lung injury]. Med Intensiva 2011; 35:509-17. [PMID: 21680060 DOI: 10.1016/j.medin.2011.05.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2011] [Revised: 05/01/2011] [Accepted: 05/03/2011] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Electrical impedance tomography has been described as a new method of monitoring critically ill patients on mechanical ventilation. It has recently gained special interest because of its applicability for monitoring ventilation and pulmonary perfusion. Its bedside and continuous implementation, and the fact that it is a non-ionizing and non-invasive technique, makes it an extremely attractive measurement tool. Likewise, given its ability to assess the regional characteristics of lung structure, it could be considered an ideal monitoring tool in the heterogeneous lung with acute lung injury. This review explains the physical concept of bioimpedance and its clinical application, and summarizes the scientific evidence published to date with regard to the implementation of electrical impedance tomography as a method for monitoring ventilation and perfusion, mainly in the patient with acute lung injury, and other possible applications of the technique in the critically ill patient. The review also summarizes the limitations of the technique and its potential areas of future development.
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- J Riera
- Servicio de Medicina Intensiva, Hospital Universitario Vall d'Hebron, Vall d'Hebron Institut de Recerca, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, España.
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Harrach B, Seo JK, Woo EJ. Factorization method and its physical justification in frequency-difference electrical impedance tomography. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MEDICAL IMAGING 2010; 29:1918-1926. [PMID: 20570764 DOI: 10.1109/tmi.2010.2053553] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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Time-difference electrical impedance tomography (tdEIT) requires two data sets measured at two different times. The difference between them is utilized to produce images of time-dependent changes in a complex conductivity distribution inside the human body. Frequency-difference EIT (fdEIT) was proposed to image frequency-dependent changes of a complex conductivity distribution. It has potential applications in tumor and stroke imaging since it can visualize an anomaly without requiring any time-reference data obtained in the absence of an anomaly. In this paper, we provide a rigorous analysis for the detectability of an anomaly based on a constructive and quantitative physical correlation between a measured fdEIT data set and an anomaly. From this, we propose a new noniterative frequency-difference anomaly detection method called the factorization method (FM) and elaborate its physical justification. To demonstrate its practical applicability, we performed fdEIT phantom imaging experiments using a multifrequency EIT system. Applying the FM to measured frequency-difference boundary voltage data sets, we could quantitatively evaluate indicator functions inside the imaging domain, of which values at each position reveal presence or absence of an anomaly. We found that the FM successfully localizes anomalies inside an imaging domain with a frequency-dependent complex conductivity distribution. We propose the new FM as an anomaly detection algorithm in fdEIT for potential applications in tumor and stroke imaging.
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- Bastian Harrach
- Fakultät für Mathematik, Technische Universität München, 85748 Garching, Germany.
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Seppa VP, Viik J, Hyttinen J. Assessment of Pulmonary Flow Using Impedance Pneumography. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 2010; 57:2277-85. [DOI: 10.1109/tbme.2010.2051668] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Murphy EK, Mueller JL. Effect of domain shape modeling and measurement errors on the 2-D D-bar method for EIT. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MEDICAL IMAGING 2009; 28:1576-1584. [PMID: 19447702 DOI: 10.1109/tmi.2009.2021611] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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The D-bar algorithm based on Nachman's 2-D global uniqueness proof for the inverse conductivity problem (Nachman, 1996) is implemented on a chest-shaped domain. The scattering transform is computed on this chest-shaped domain using trigonometric and adjacent current patterns and the complete electrode model for the forward problem is computed with the finite element method in order to obtain simulated voltage measurements. The robustness and effectiveness of the method is demonstrated on a simulated chest with errors in input currents, output voltages, electrode placement, and domain modeling.
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Evaluation of an electrical impedance tomography-based global inhomogeneity index for pulmonary ventilation distribution. Intensive Care Med 2009; 35:1900-6. [DOI: 10.1007/s00134-009-1589-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 142] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2009] [Accepted: 06/25/2009] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Yilmaz A, Akdoğan KE, Saka B. Application of conformal transformation to elliptic geometry for electric impedance tomography. Med Eng Phys 2007; 30:144-53. [PMID: 17509923 DOI: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2007.03.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2006] [Revised: 03/19/2007] [Accepted: 03/22/2007] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is a medical imaging modality that is used to compute the conductivity distribution through measurements on the cross-section of a body part. An elliptic geometry model, which defines a more general frame, ensures more accurate results in reconstruction and assessment of inhomogeneities inside. This study provides a link between the analytical solutions defined in circular and elliptical geometries on the basis of the computation of conformal mapping. The results defined as voltage distributions for the homogeneous case in elliptic and circular geometries have been compared with those obtained by the use of conformal transformation between elliptical and well-known circular geometry. The study also includes the results of the finite element method (FEM) as another approach for more complex geometries for the comparison of performance in other complex scenarios for eccentric inhomogeneities. The study emphasizes that for the elliptic case the analytical solution with conformal transformation is a reliable and useful tool for developing insight into more complex forms including eccentric inhomogeneities.
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- Atila Yilmaz
- Electrical & Electronics Engineering Department, Hacettepe University, 06800 Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey.
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Fusheng Y, Xiuzhen D, Xuetao S, Feng F, Ruigang L, Wanjun S. An image monitoring system for intraperitoneal bleeding using electrical impedance tomography and its preliminary results in vivo. CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS : ... ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2007; 2005:1500-3. [PMID: 17282485 DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2005.1616716] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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An image monitoring system using electrical impedance tomography (EIT) for intraperitoneal bleeding was designed (FMMU V3.5). It consists of a constant current driving source with frequency of 50 KHz, a high accuracy measurement module, a driving and measuring mode program-controlled circuits, a data acquisition card, an optoelectronic isolated digital I/O board, and a custom-specified linear power supply units. The system applied equal-potential back projection algorithm to reconstruct dynamic images. The relative accuracy of the system is 0.1%, the RTI noise is 11.1 mu V (bandwidth 100 Hz). Based on physical phantom, images reconstructed by the system showed that it can image dynamically to the infused saline solution, and by infusing more solution the gray changed area of the image also enlarged accordingly. For stomach filling model in vivo, the dynamic imaging processes showed that the system can clearly and sensitively monitoring the saline solution drinking into the stomach for 50 ml each time, and by drinking more saline solution the conductivity changed area of the dynamic image also enlarged accordingly.
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- You Fusheng
- Dept. of Biomed. Eng., Fourth Mil. Med. Univ., Xi'an
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Pandey V, Pandey P. Cancellation of respiratory artifact in impedance cardiography. CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS : ... ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2007; 2005:5503-6. [PMID: 17281499 DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2005.1615729] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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Impedance cardiography is a noninvasive technique for monitoring stroke volume, based on sensing variation in the thoracic impedance, z(t), due to blood flow. In this technique, first derivative of impedance, dz/dt, is used to calculate two parameters: ventricular ejection time and (-dz/dt)<inf>max.</inf>Respiration and motion artifacts cause base line drift in the sensed impedance waveform, mainly during exercise, and this drift results in errors in the estimation of the two parameters. Ensemble averaging of z(t) signal suppresses motion artifacts but it introduces distortion in the signal. In this study, simultaneously acquired respiratory signal is used for cancellation of corrupting respiratory artifact from the recorded z(t) signal, using adaptive noise cancellation technique.
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- Vinod Pandey
- BME Group, Bio School, IIT Bombay, Powai Mumbai 400 076, India. E-mail:
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Smit HJ, Vonk-Noordegraaf A, Boonstra A, de Vries PM, Postmus PE. Assessment of the Pulmonary Volume Pulse in Idiopathic Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension by Means of Electrical Impedance Tomography. Respiration 2006; 73:597-602. [PMID: 16205046 DOI: 10.1159/000088694] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2004] [Accepted: 05/25/2005] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is a non-invasive imaging technique which can be used to measure the blood volume changes in the pulmonary vascular bed during the cardiac cycle. STUDY OBJECTIVES This study was performed to evaluate the differences in the EIT signal of the pulmonary vascular bed between healthy subjects and patients with idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension (IPAH), who are known to have a remodelled pulmonary vascular bed. PATIENTS AND METHODS Twenty-one patients (17 females, 4 males) with IPAH and 30 healthy controls (5 females, 25 males) were measured. EIT measurements were performed in duplicate, on the same day as right heart catheterization to obtain haemodynamic data. The maximal impedance change during systole (Delta Z(sys)) was used as a measure of the pulmonary volume pulse and expressed in arbitrary units (AU). Total lung capacity, spirometric values and diffusion capacity for carbon monoxide were measured as well. RESULTS Mean Delta Z(sys) was 215 +/- 58 x 10(-2) AU (95% CI 193 x 10(-2) to 236 x 10(-2)) in the healthy subjects and 78 +/- 27 x 10(-2) AU (95% CI 66 x 10(-2) to 91 x 10(-2)) in the IPAH patient group (p < 0.0001). No significant correlation was found between Delta Z(sys) and any of the haemodynamic or lung function data. CONCLUSION The impedance pulsation of the pulmonary vascular bed is reduced in IPAH in comparison with controls, indicating a reduced volume pulse. This might represent the reduced cross section area, as well as the reduced compliance and number of the pulmonary vessels in these patients.
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- Henk J Smit
- Department of Pulmonary Diseases, VU Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Smit HJ, Vonk Noordegraaf A, Marcus JT, Boonstra A, de Vries PM, Postmus PE. Determinants of pulmonary perfusion measured by electrical impedance tomography. Eur J Appl Physiol 2004; 92:45-9. [PMID: 14985995 DOI: 10.1007/s00421-004-1043-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/15/2003] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is a non-invasive imaging technique for detecting blood volume changes that can visualize pulmonary perfusion. The two studies reported here tested the hypothesis that the size of the pulmonary microvascular bed, rather than stroke volume (SV), determines the EIT signal. In the first study, the impedance changes relating to the maximal pulmonary pulsatile blood volume during systole (Delta Z(sys)) were measured in ten healthy subjects, ten patients diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, who were considered to have a reduced pulmonary vascular bed, and ten heart failure patients with an assumed low cardiac output but with a normal lung parenchyma. Mean Delta Z(sys) (SD) in these groups was 261 (34)x10(-5), 196 (39)x10(-5) ( P<0.001) and 233 (61)x10(-5) arbitrary units (AU) (P=NS), respectively. In the second study, including seven healthy volunteers, Delta Z(sys) was measured at rest and during exercise on a recumbent bicycle while SV was measured by means of magnetic resonance imaging. The Delta Z(sys) at rest was 352 (53)x10(-5 ) and 345 (112)x10(-5 )AU during exercise (P=NS), whereas SV increased from 83 (21) to 105 (34) ml (P<0.05). The EIT signal likely reflects the size of the pulmonary microvascular bed, since neither a low cardiac output nor a change in SV of the heart appear to influence EIT.
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- Henk J Smit
- Department of Pulmonary Medicine, VU Medical Center, PO Box 7057, 1007 MB Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Smit HJ, Vonk-Noordegraaf A, Marcus JT, van der Weijden S, Postmus PE, de Vries PMJM, Boonstra A. Pulmonary vascular responses to hypoxia and hyperoxia in healthy volunteers and COPD patients measured by electrical impedance tomography. Chest 2003; 123:1803-9. [PMID: 12796153 DOI: 10.1378/chest.123.6.1803] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/01/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is a noninvasive imaging technique using impedance to visualize and measure blood volume changes. STUDY OBJECTIVE To examine the validity of EIT in the measurement of hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction (HPV) and hyperoxic pulmonary vasodilation in healthy volunteers and COPD patients. PARTICIPANTS Group 1 consisted of seven healthy volunteers (mean age, 46 years; age range, 36 to 53 years). Group 2 comprised six clinically stable COPD patients (mean age, 65 years; age range, 50 to 74 years). INTERVENTIONS EIT measurements were performed in healthy subjects while they were breathing room air, 14% oxygen (ie, hypoxia), and 100% oxygen (ie, hyperoxia) through a mouthpiece. Maximal impedance change during systole (DeltaZsys) was used as a measure of pulmonary perfusion-related impedance changes. Stroke volume (SV) was measured by means of MRI. In the COPD group, EIT and SV also were determined, but only in room air and under hyperoxic conditions. RESULTS The data were statistically compared to data for the room air baseline condition. In the volunteers, the mean (+/- SD) DeltaZsys for the group was 352 +/- 53 arbitrary units (AU) while breathing room air, 309 +/- 75 AU in hypoxia (p < 0.05), and 341 +/- 69 AU in hyperoxia (not significant [NS]). The mean MRI-measured SV was 83 +/- 21 mL while breathing room air, 90 +/- 29) mL in hypoxia (NS), and 94 +/- 19 mL in hyperoxia (p < 0.05). In the COPD patients, the mean DeltaZsys for this group was 222 +/- 84 AU while breathing room air and 255 +/- 83 AU in hyperoxia (p < 0.05). In this group, the SV was 59 +/- 16 mL while breathing room air and 61 +/- 13 mL in hyperoxia (NS). Thus, the volunteer EIT response to hypoxia is not caused by decreased SV, because SV did not show a significant decrease. Similarly, in COPD patients the EIT response to hyperoxia is not caused by increased SV, because SV showed only a minor change. CONCLUSION EIT can detect blood volume changes due to HPV noninvasively in healthy subjects and hyperoxic vasodilation in COPD patients.
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- Henk J Smit
- Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Vrije Universiteit Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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Wang Y, Haynor DR, Kim Y. A finite-element study of the effects of electrode position on the measured impedance change in impedance cardiography. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 2001; 48:1390-401. [PMID: 11759920 DOI: 10.1109/10.966598] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Traditional impedance cardiography (ICG) technique uses band electrodes both for delivering current to and measuring impedance change in the thorax. The use of spot electrodes increases the ease of electrode placement and comfort level for patients. Research has shown that changes in thoracic impedance can have multiple causes. In this study, we used finite element modeling to investigate the sources of impedance change for both band-electrode and spot-electrode ICG, and focused on how differences in electrode location affect the contribution of different sources to changes in impedance. The ultimate purpose is to identify the optimal electrode type and placement for the sensing of stroke volume (SV). Our models were built on sets of end-diastolic and end-systolic magnetic resonance images of a healthy human subject. The results showed that the effect of ventricular contraction is opposite to that of the other changes in systole: the expansion of major vessels, decrease in blood resistivity due to increased blood flow velocity, and decrease in lung resistivity due to increased blood perfusion. Ventricular contraction, the only factor that tends to increase systolic impedance, has a larger effect than any of the other factors. When spot electrodes are placed on the anterior chest wall near the heart, ventricular contraction is so dominant that the measured impedance increases from end-diastole to end-systole, and the change represents 82% of the contribution from ventricular contraction. When using the common band-electrode configuration, the change in measured impedance is a more balanced combination of the four effects, and ventricular contraction is overcome by the other three factors so that the impedance decreases. These results suggest that the belief that ICG can be used to directly measure SV based on the change in the whole thoracic impedance may be invalid, and that spot electrodes may be more useful for understanding local physiological events such as ventricular volume change. These findings are supported by previously reported experimental observations.
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- Y Wang
- Rosetta Inpharmatics, Inc., Kirkland, WA 98034, USA
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da Silva JE, de Sá JP, Jossinet J. Classification of breast tissue by electrical impedance spectroscopy. Med Biol Eng Comput 2000; 38:26-30. [PMID: 10829386 DOI: 10.1007/bf02344684] [Citation(s) in RCA: 120] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Electrical impedance spectroscopy is a minimally invasive technique that has clear advantages for living tissue characterisation owing to its low cost and ease of use. The present paper describes how this technique can be applied to breast tissue classification and breast cancer detection. Statistical analysis is used to derive a set of rules based on features extracted from the graphical representation of electrical impedance spectra. These rules are used hierarchically to discriminate several classes of breast tissue. Results of statistical classification obtained from a data set of 106 cases representing six classes of excised breast tissue show an overall classification efficiency of approximately 92% with carcinoma discrimination > 86%.
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- J E da Silva
- INEB (Instituto de Engenharia Biomédica), Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Portugal
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Smallwood RH, Hampshire AR, Brown BH, Primhak RA, Marven S, Nopp P. A comparison of neonatal and adult lung impedances derived from EIT images. Physiol Meas 1999; 20:401-13. [PMID: 10593233 DOI: 10.1088/0967-3334/20/4/307] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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An objective method of extracting respiratory data from lung images is presented, together with a technique for automatically generating regions of interest delineating the anterior and posterior regions of the lungs. The method is used to extract data on the change in lung impedance with frequency, and on calculated Cole parameters, from 19 normal neonates (gestational age 32 to 42 weeks) and 8 normal adults (age 21 to 82 years). A comparison of the impedance properties of neonatal and adult lungs was made. The variation of lung impedance with frequency in neonates, as derived from EIT images, is significantly different from that found for adults. The implications for a model of the electrical impedance of lung tissue are discussed.
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- R H Smallwood
- Department of Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering, University of Sheffield, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, UK
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Kauppinen P, Kööbi T, Kaukinen S, Hyttinen J, Malmivuo J. Application of computer modelling and lead field theory in developing multiple aimed impedance cardiography measurements. J Med Eng Technol 1999; 23:169-77. [PMID: 10627950 DOI: 10.1080/030919099294122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Conventional impedance cardiography (ICG) methods estimate parameters related to the function of the heart from a single waveform that reflects an integrated combination of complex sources. We have previously developed methods and tools for calculating measurement sensitivity distributions of ICG electrode configurations. In this study, the methods were applied to investigate the prospects of recording multiple aimed ICG waveforms utilizing the 12-lead electrocardiography (ECG) electrode locations. Three anatomically realistic volume conductor models were used: one based on Visible Human Man cryosection data and two on magnetic resonance (MR) images representing end diastolic and end systolic phases of the cardiac cycle. Based on the sensitivity distributions obtained, 236 electrode configurations were selected for preliminary clinical examination on 12 healthy volunteers and 9 valvular patients. The model study suggested that a variety of configurations had clearly enhanced sensitivity to the cardiovascular structures as compared to conventional ICGs. Simulation data and clinical experiments showed logical correspondence supporting the theoretically predicted differences between the configurations. Recorded 12-lead ICG signals had characteristic waveforms and landmarks not coinciding with those of conventional ICG. Furthermore, configurations showing resemblance to invasive data and morphological variations in disease are of interest. The results indicate the applicability of the modelling approach in developing ICG measurement configurations. However, the level of clinical relevance and potential of the 12-lead method remains to be explored in studies employing dynamic modelling and acquisition of invasive reference data.
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- P Kauppinen
- Tampere University of Technology, Ragnar Granit Institute, Finland.
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Kauppinen PK, Hyttinen JA, Kööbi T, Malmivuo J. Lead field theoretical approach in bioimpedance measurements: towards more controlled measurement sensitivity. Ann N Y Acad Sci 1999; 873:135-42. [PMID: 10372161 DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1999.tb09460.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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This study was conducted to demonstrate the potentiality of lead field theoretical approach in analyzing bioimpedance (BI) measurements. Anatomically accurate computer models and the lead field theory were used to develop BI measurement configurations capable of detecting more localized BI changes in the human body. The methods were applied to assess the measurement properties of conventional impedance cardiography (ICG) and such BI measurement configurations as can be derived using (i) the 12-lead electrocardiography (ECG) and (ii) the international 10-20 electroencephalography (EEG) electrode systems. Information as to how various electrode configurations are sensitive to detecting conductivity changes in different tissues and organs was thus obtained. Theoretical results with the 12-lead system suggested that, compared to conventional ICGs, significantly more selective ICG configurations can be derived for cardiovascular structures. In addition to theoretical investigations, clinical test measurements were made with the 12-lead system to establish whether characteristic waveforms are available. Sensitivity distributions obtained with the 10-20 electrode system give promise of the possibility of monitoring noninvasively cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) impedance changes related to impending epileptic seizures.
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- P K Kauppinen
- Ragnar Granit Institute, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
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