• 산업기술연구
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• 제27권B호
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• pp.91-96
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• 2007

Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is a technique for determining the electrical conductivity and permittivity distribution within the interior of a body from measurements made on its surface. One recent application area of the EIT is the detection of breast cancer by imaging the conductivity and permittivity distribution inside the breast. The present standard for breast cancer detection is X-ray mammography, and it is desirable that EIT and X-ray mammography use the same geometry. A forward model of a simplified mammography geometry for EIT imaging was proposed earlier. In this paper, we propose an iterative algorithm for computing the current pattern that will be applied to the electrodes. The current pattern applied to the electrodes influences the voltages measured on the electrodes. Since the measured voltage data is going to be used in the impedance imaging computation, it is desirable to apply currents that result in the largest possible voltage signal. We compute the eigenfunctions for a homogenous medium that will be applied as current patterns to the electrodes. The algorithm for the computation of the eigenfunctions is presented. The convergence of the algorithm is shown by computing the eigencurrent of the simplified mammography geometry.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.413-418
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• 1994

In electrical impedance tomography (EIT), we use boundary current and voltage measurements to provide the information about the cross-sectional distribution of electrical impedance or resistivity One of the major problems in EIT has been the inaccessibility of internal voltage or current data in finding the internal impedance values. We propose a new image reconstruction method using internal current density data measured by NMR. We obtained a two-dimensional current density distribution within a phantom by processing the real and imaginary MR images from a 4.7T NMR machine. We implemented a resistivity image reconstruction algorithm using the finite element method and sensitivity matrix. We presented computer simulation results of the image reconstruction algorithm and furture direction of the research.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2003년도 ICCAS
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• pp.134-137
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• 2003

Newton-Raphson is most used algorithm in EIT(electrical impedance tomography), cross-sectional distribution of resistivity is reconstructed by mean of both generating and sensing electrodes attached onto the surface of the object. EIT has been suffered from the severe ill-posedness which is caused by the inherent low sensitivity of boundary measurements to any changes of internal resistivity values. In this paper, we propose modified cost function and weighting factor that compensate for low sensitivity between boundary measurements and internal resistivity and improve performance of Newton-Raphson for EIT in region of interest.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.269-275
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• 2004

인체내부의 각 조직은 서로 다른 저항률(resistivity)분포를 가지며, 조직의 생리학적, 기능적 변화에 따라 임피던스가 변화한다. 본 논문에서는 주로 기능적 영상을 위한 임피던스 단층촬영 (EIT, electrical impedance tomography) 시스템의 설계와 구현 결과를 기술한다. EIT 시스템은 인체의 표면에 부착한 전극을 통해 전류를 주입하고 이로 인해 유기되는 전압을 측정하여, 내부 임피던스의 단층영상을 복원하는 기술이다. EIT 시스템의 개발에 있어서는 영상복원의 난해함과 아울러 측정시스템의 낮은 정확도가 기술적인 문제가 되고 있다. 본 논문은 기존 EIT 시스템의 문제점을 파악하고 디지털 기술을 이용하여 보다 정확도가 높고 안정된 시스템을 설계 및 제작하였다. 크기와 주파수 및 파형의 변화 가능한 50KHz의 정현파 전류를 인체에 주입하기 위해 필요한 정밀 정전류원을 설계하여 제작한 결과, 출력 파형의 고조파 왜곡(THD, total harmonic distortion)이 0.0029%이고 진폭 안정도가 0.022%인 전류를 출력 할 수 있었다. 또한, 여러개의 정전류원을 사용함으로써 채 널간 오차를 유발하던 기존의 시스템을 변경하여, 하나의 전류원에서 만들어진 전류를 각 채널로 스위칭하여 공급함으로써 이로 인한 오차를 줄였다. 주입전류에 의해 유기된 전압의 정밀한 측정을 위해 높은 정밀도를 갖는 전압측정기가 필요하므로 차동증폭기, 고속 ADC및 FPGA(field programmable gate array)를 사용한 디지털 위상감응복조기 (phase-sensitive demodulator )를 제작하였다. 이때 병렬 처리를 가능하게 하여 모든 전극 채널에서 동시에 측정을 수행 할 수 있도록 하였으며, 제작된 전압측정기의 SNR(signal-to-noise ratio)은 90dB 이다. 이러한 EIT 시스템을 사용하여 배경의 전해질 용액에 비해 두 배의 저항률을 가지는 물체(바나나)에 대한 기초적인 영상복원 실험을 수행하였다. 본 시스템은 16채널로 제작되었으나 전체를 모듈형으로 설계하여 쉽게 채널의 수를 늘릴 수 있는 장점을 가지고 있어서 향후 64채널 이상의 디지털 EIT시스템을 제작할 계획이며, 인체 내부의 임피던스 분포를 3차원적 으로 영상화하는 연구를 수행 할 예정이다.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2002년도 합동 추계학술대회 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.513-516
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• 2002

In electrical impedance tomography(EIT), various image reconstruction algorithms have been used in order to compute the internal resistivity distribution of the unknown object with its electric potential data at the boundary. Mathematically the EIT image reconstruction algorithm is a nonlinear ill-posed inverse problem. This paper presents two intelligent optimization algorithm techniques such as genetic algorithm and simulated annealing for the solution of the static EIT inverse problem. We summarize the simulation results for the three algorithm forms: modified Newton-Raphson, genetic algorithm, and simulated annealing.

• 한국정보기술학회논문지
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• 제16권11호
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• pp.35-41
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• 2018

전기 임피던스 단층촬영법 (EIT, electrical impedance tomography)은 비파괴검사의 일종으로 관심영역 외부에 설치된 전극에서 측정된 전압으로부터 내부의 저항률분포를 얻는 기술이다. 그러나 EIT에서 영상복원은 타고난 비선형성 (non-linearity)과 부정치성 (ill-posedness) 때문에 만족할만한 복원결과를 얻기 어렵다. 일반적으로 신경회로망은 비선형 시스템의 입력 및 출력 관계를 효율적으로 모델링 할 수 있다. 이 논문은 다층 신경회로망을 이용하여 원형인 표적의 위치(중심좌표)와 크기(반지름)를 추정하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법의 성능을 알아보기 위해, 신경회로망을 학습시키고 다양한 컴퓨터 모의실험을 수행하였고 결과로부터 제안한 방법의 만족할만한 추정성능을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.39-46
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• 2012

Electrical impedance tomography(EIT) can produce functional images with conductivity distributions associated with physiological events such as cardiac and respiratory cycles. EIT has been proposed as a clinical imaging tool for the detection of stroke and breast cancer, pulmonary function monitoring, cardiac imaging and other clinical applications. However EIT still suffers from technical challenges such as the electrode interface, hardware limitations, lack of animal or human trials, and interpretation of conductivity variations in reconstructed images. We improved the KHU Mark2 EIT system by introducing an EIT electrode interface consisting of nano-web fabric electrodes and by adding a synchronized biosignal measurement system for gated conductivity imaging. ECG and respiration signals are collected to analyze the relationship between the changes in conductivity images and cardiac activity or respiration. The biosignal measurement system provides a trigger to the EIT system to commence imaging and the EIT system produces an output trigger. This EIT acquisition time trigger signal will also allow us to operate the EIT system synchronously with other clinical devices. This type of biosignal gated conductivity imaging enables capture of fast cardiac events and may also improve images and the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) by using signal averaging methods at the same point in cardiac or respiration cycles. As an example we monitored the beat by beat cardiac-related change of conductivity in the EIT images obtained at a common state over multiple respiration cycles. We showed that the gated conductivity imaging method reveals cardiac perfusion changes in the heart region of the EIT images on a canine animal model. These changes appear to have the expected timing relationship to the ECG and ventilator settings that were used to control respiration. As EIT is radiation free and displays high timing resolution its ability to reveal perfusion changes may be of use in intensive care units for continuous monitoring of cardiopulmonary function.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2003년도 ICCAS
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• pp.396-401
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• 2003

Electrical impedance tomography(EIT) is a relatively new imaging modality in which the internal impedivity distribution is reconstructed based on the known sets of injected currents and measured voltages on the surface of the object. In this paper, an effective dynamic EIT imaging scheme is presented based on the projection filtering to estimate the unknown resistivity distribution. In particular, pre-integration (pre-grouping) technique is employed to stabilize the inverse algorithm. We carried out computer simulations with synthetic data to illustrate the reconstruction performance of the proposed algorithm.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.102-105
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• 1989

In electrical impedance tomography(EIT), we use boundary current and voltage measurements toprovide the information about the cross-sectional distribution of electrical impedance or resistivity. One of the major problems in EIT has been the inaccessibility of internal voltage or current data in finding the internal impedance values. We propose a new image reconstruction method using internal current density data measured by NMR. We obtained a two-dimensional current density distribution within a phantom by processing the real and imaginary MR images from a 4.77 NMR machine. We implemented a resistivity mage reconstruction algorithm using the finite element method and sensitivity matrix. We presented computer simulation results of the mage reconstruction algorithm and furture direction of the research.

• 대한수학회지
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• 제45권1호
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• pp.97-119
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• 2008

Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) problem with anisotropic anomalous region is formulated in a few different ways using boundary integral operators. The Frechet derivative of Neumann-to-Dirichlet map is computed also by using boundary integral operators and the boundary of the anomalous region is approximated by trigonometric expansion with Lagrangian basis. The numerical reconstruction is done in case that the conductivity of the anomalous region is isotropic.