Clinical physics and physiological measurement : an official journal of the Hospital Physicists' Association, Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Medizinische Physik and the European Federation of Organisations for Medical Physics最新文献
{"title":"Electrical impedance tomography with cortical or scalp electrodes during global cerebral ischaemia in the anaesthetised rat.","authors":"D S Holder","doi":"10.1088/0143-0815/13/1/008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/0143-0815/13/1/008","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The performance of a prototype impedance imaging (Electrical Impedance Tomography, EIT) system using cortical or scalp electrodes has been assessed in a model of global cerebral ischaemia in the anaesthetised rat. In preliminary calibration experiments using a circular array of electrodes around a tank of saline, the centre of a polythene rod could be localised with a mean error of 4% of the tank diameter, and two such rods could be discriminated when separated by 22% of the tank diameter. Cerebral ischaemia was produced by diathermy of the vertebral arteries and reversible occlusion of the common carotid arteries for 15 min. A bimodal impedance increase of about 50-200% was recorded with a ring of cortical electrodes in the fronto-occipital plane. With a similarly oriented ring of scalp electrodes, a unimodal impedance increase of about 10% was observed. In both cases, impedance reversed after cerebral reperfusion. Similar but irreversible changes were observed post mortem. As the reconstruction algorithm assumes constant initial resistivity, this suggests that modifications to allow for initial conditions would be needed for more accurate imaging with scalp electrodes.</p>","PeriodicalId":77070,"journal":{"name":"Clinical physics and physiological measurement : an official journal of the Hospital Physicists' Association, Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Medizinische Physik and the European Federation of Organisations for Medical Physics","volume":"13 1","pages":"87-98"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1088/0143-0815/13/1/008","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12731194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
W B Tindale, D C Barber, M H Giaffer, S Senior, C D Holdsworth
{"title":"99Tcm HMPAO-labelled leucocyte imaging in Crohn's disease: a subtraction technique for the quantification of disease activity.","authors":"W B Tindale, D C Barber, M H Giaffer, S Senior, C D Holdsworth","doi":"10.1088/0143-0815/13/1/004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/0143-0815/13/1/004","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A new technique for the quantitative analysis of labelled leucocyte images from patients with inflammatory bowel disease is described. The method involves the computer generation of a 'background' image which, after appropriate registration, is subtracted from the patient's image to leave a residue which represents abnormal uptake in the bowel. Quantification of the residual activity yields a scan score which can be related to the level of disease activity in patients with Crohn's disease. In 54 investigations on 33 patients the scan scores correctly agreed with a clinical assessment of disease activity in 16 of 20 cases with inactive disease and 32 out of 34 cases with active disease. Most of the discrepancies reflected inaccuracies in the clinical assessment of activity rather than shortcomings of the imaging technique.</p>","PeriodicalId":77070,"journal":{"name":"Clinical physics and physiological measurement : an official journal of the Hospital Physicists' Association, Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Medizinische Physik and the European Federation of Organisations for Medical Physics","volume":"13 1","pages":"37-50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1088/0143-0815/13/1/004","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12731190","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Detection of cortical spreading depression in the anaesthetised rat by impedance measurement with scalp electrodes: implications for non-invasive imaging of the brain with electrical impedance tomography.","authors":"D S Holder","doi":"10.1088/0143-0815/13/1/007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/0143-0815/13/1/007","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The possible use of impedance measurement with scalp electrodes to detect intracranial events non-invasively was investigated by measuring the localised impedance changes during cortical spreading depression (CSD) in anaesthetised rats. Impedance was measured over ipsilateral fronto-parietal cortex by a four electrode method operating at 50 kHz with electrodes spaced 0.5 mm apart. Cortical impedance increased by 39% of the resting level during CSD. With scalp electrodes placed on abraded skin, an unexpected impedance decrease of 0.8% occurred, which correlated spatially and temporally with CSD. CSD was accompanied by a small rise in temperature; when scalp temperature was held constant by warming the scalp, no impedance change greater than baseline variability (+/- 0.1% of the resting impedance level) was observed. The non-invasive detection of CSD in migraine in humans may be possible by measuring the characteristic temperature-related impedance changes with Electrical Impedance Tomography and scalp electrodes.</p>","PeriodicalId":77070,"journal":{"name":"Clinical physics and physiological measurement : an official journal of the Hospital Physicists' Association, Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Medizinische Physik and the European Federation of Organisations for Medical Physics","volume":"13 1","pages":"77-86"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1088/0143-0815/13/1/007","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12731193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Electrical impedance tomography. An improved design of voltmeter for semi-parallel data acquisition.","authors":"C Trillaud, J Jossinet","doi":"10.1088/0143-0815/13/a/001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/0143-0815/13/a/001","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The design and implementation of high performance differential voltmeters for semi-parallel data acquisition are described. The general requirements and specific conditions encountered in electrical impedance tomography (EIT) for accurate measurements are analysed. The major parameters are common-mode rejection and bandwidth. A specific implementation of the voltmeters, with separate DC supplies and independent signal references, is described. This arrangement, in which each voltmeter follows the input signal, automatically cancels any common-mode voltage present at the input. The signal is fed to the remainder of the instrumentation through a transformer. The use of a reduced number of components contributes to the minimisation of the inter-channel variations. Furthermore, the geometrical distribution of the voltmeters around the object minimises the length of electrode wires, also reducing the input capacitance. The number of modular voltmeters and DC/DC converters is 32. The common-mode rejection of these voltmeters is greater than 72 dB in the frequency range 3.6-560 kHz. In conclusion, the proposed solution ensures a minimisation of common-mode errors and enables the use of a 250 kHz frequency.</p>","PeriodicalId":77070,"journal":{"name":"Clinical physics and physiological measurement : an official journal of the Hospital Physicists' Association, Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Medizinische Physik and the European Federation of Organisations for Medical Physics","volume":"13 Suppl A ","pages":"5-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1088/0143-0815/13/a/001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12754113","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J Conway, M Hawley, Y Mangnall, H Amasha, G C van Rhoon
{"title":"Experimental assessment of electrical impedance imaging for hyperthermia monitoring.","authors":"J Conway, M Hawley, Y Mangnall, H Amasha, G C van Rhoon","doi":"10.1088/0143-0815/13/a/036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/0143-0815/13/a/036","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Two experimental studies are presented that attempt to assess the use of electrical impedance tomography (EIT) to map thermal changes deep in the body. The first was a joint study between our group in Sheffield and the Daniel den Hoed Cancer Center in Rotterdam, funded by the COMAC-BME Hyperthermia project. Phantom and in vivo experiments were conducted with a deep heating ring-capacitive hyperthermia device; the results highlighted some of the inherent problems (electromagnetic interference, nonuniform sensitivity) that remain to be solved for this application. The second experimental study involved heating the stomachs of volunteers by pumping known quantities of liquid (a salt/glucose solution, conductivity 5 mS) at controlled temperatures (25, 37 and 47 degrees C) in and out of the stomach via a nasogastric tube. Results indicated that the level of thermal change induced by these liquids could be reproducibly measured by impedance imaging. Both studies were a further step in assessing the capabilities of EIT for noninvasive monitoring of deep body hyperthermia. The results are encouraging and indicate the value of continued development of EIT for non-invasive thermometry.</p>","PeriodicalId":77070,"journal":{"name":"Clinical physics and physiological measurement : an official journal of the Hospital Physicists' Association, Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Medizinische Physik and the European Federation of Organisations for Medical Physics","volume":"13 Suppl A ","pages":"185-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1088/0143-0815/13/a/036","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12754203","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Electrical impedance tomography systems based on voltage drive.","authors":"W Sansen, B Geeraerts, W Van Petegem, M Steyaert","doi":"10.1088/0143-0815/13/a/008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/0143-0815/13/a/008","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>At the ESAT-MICAS research facility in Leuven, several EIT systems have been designed and realised. The latest hardware set-up makes use of a PC to control the data collection and to reconstruct the images. A voltage drive strategy and no common-mode feedback are some of its specific characteristics. The function-generator produces signals with a frequency between 10 and 100 kHz, so multifrequency images can also be produced. Static images have already been obtained and (semi-)real time imaging is possible with our latest mark IV system. This system has 16 bit analogue-to-digital convertors and is capable of taking 50 x 10(3) samples/s.</p>","PeriodicalId":77070,"journal":{"name":"Clinical physics and physiological measurement : an official journal of the Hospital Physicists' Association, Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Medizinische Physik and the European Federation of Organisations for Medical Physics","volume":"13 Suppl A ","pages":"39-42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1088/0143-0815/13/a/008","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12754211","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Electrical impedance tomography. Solving anisotropic mixed boundary value problems by means of the boundary element method.","authors":"H Zhou, A van Oosterom","doi":"10.1088/0143-0815/13/a/025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/0143-0815/13/a/025","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In a previous study we have shown that an anisotropic volume conduction problem involving the Neumann condition at the outer surface of a volume conductor can be solved by means of the boundary element method by applying an appropriate coordinate transformation (Zhou and van Oosterom 1991). In this paper we will show that this approach can also be applied to solve the anisotropic mixed boundary value condition problems studied in electrical impedance tomography (EIT). Results are presented of numerical computations, which were carried out for a volume conductor of irregular (torso) shape.</p>","PeriodicalId":77070,"journal":{"name":"Clinical physics and physiological measurement : an official journal of the Hospital Physicists' Association, Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Medizinische Physik and the European Federation of Organisations for Medical Physics","volume":"13 Suppl A ","pages":"131-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1088/0143-0815/13/a/025","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12754372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A broadband system for multifrequency static imaging in electrical impedance tomography.","authors":"P J Riu, J Rosell, A Lozano, R Pallàs-Areny","doi":"10.1088/0143-0815/13/a/013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/0143-0815/13/a/013","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A widely accepted method for static imaging in electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is to measure at two frequencies. The choice of measurement frequencies is application-dependent because some different tissues cannot be distinguished when using two fixed frequencies. We have developed a system that generates signals from 8-10(3) kHz and applies two of these signals simultaneously to the body through a broadband current mirror. Great care has been taken in the design of the current injection multiplexer in order to keep the current source output capacitance as low as possible. Furthermore design of the layout of the patient interface board, in order to reduce feedthrough capacitances, also needs great care. Other parameters for driving and detection sections have been designed according to our results from FEM and circuit simulations including skin and electrode effects. Simulations using FEM with available tissue impedance data and preliminary measurements in a discrete phantom show that static imaging is possible for both the real and imaginary parts of the impedance.</p>","PeriodicalId":77070,"journal":{"name":"Clinical physics and physiological measurement : an official journal of the Hospital Physicists' Association, Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Medizinische Physik and the European Federation of Organisations for Medical Physics","volume":"13 Suppl A ","pages":"61-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1088/0143-0815/13/a/013","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12754116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E J Lindley, B H Brown, D C Barber, D Grundy, R Knowles, F J McArdle, A J Wilson
{"title":"Monitoring body fluid distribution in microgravity using impedance tomography (APT (applied potential tomography)).","authors":"E J Lindley, B H Brown, D C Barber, D Grundy, R Knowles, F J McArdle, A J Wilson","doi":"10.1088/0143-0815/13/a/035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/0143-0815/13/a/035","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>For an astronaut, the excitement of going into orbit is accompanied by a shift of 1 to 1.5 l of fluid from the legs into the upper body. Information on the way the redistributed fluid is handled by the body is very useful to space physiologists studying the process of adaptation to zero-gravity. Applied potential tomography (APT) can be used to image changes in fluid distribution. To ensure that the technique was capable of measuring fluid shifts induced by changing gravitational forces on the body, a standard Sheffield APT system was used to study several subjects during the eight ESA parabolic flight campaign. The results clearly demonstrated the feasibility of using APT for monitoring fluid redistribution during space flight. A battery-powered, body-worn APT system has now been developed for use in space. The equipment was tested on the eleventh parabolic flight campaign. The data collected with the miniaturised system was comparable to that obtained in the earlier experiment. Ergonomic tests indicated that the equipment is no more difficult to operate and maintain under weightless conditions than on earth. The system is undergoing space qualification tests in Munich. If no problems arise it will be used by German astronauts on missions to MIR and Skylab.</p>","PeriodicalId":77070,"journal":{"name":"Clinical physics and physiological measurement : an official journal of the Hospital Physicists' Association, Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Medizinische Physik and the European Federation of Organisations for Medical Physics","volume":"13 Suppl A ","pages":"181-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1088/0143-0815/13/a/035","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12754202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pulmonary perfusion and ventricular ejection imaging by frequency domain filtering of EIT (electrical impedance tomography) images.","authors":"M Zadehkoochak, B H Blott, T K Hames, R F George","doi":"10.1088/0143-0815/13/a/037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/0143-0815/13/a/037","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>While EIT images can produce clinically useful qualitative information, the extraction of quantitative data is essential in clinical monitoring. In the case of imaging of the thorax the parameters available relate to cardiac activity and pulmonary perfusion. Imaging the relatively small changes in the resistivity of the lungs due to pulmonary perfusion in the presence of noise and the larger ventilation component is difficult. Suggested solutions involve multiple time averaging of cardiac gated data or reconstructed images. The required number of data frames for this type of processing is large (at least 100 cardiac cycles). Because the ventilation and perfusion components of the resistivity signals are well separated in the frequency domain, they can be differentiated by filtering. We report the results of this analysis which requires a data collection period of typically 15 s.</p>","PeriodicalId":77070,"journal":{"name":"Clinical physics and physiological measurement : an official journal of the Hospital Physicists' Association, Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Medizinische Physik and the European Federation of Organisations for Medical Physics","volume":"13 Suppl A ","pages":"191-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1088/0143-0815/13/a/037","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12754205","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}