Frequency-Division Multiplexing for Electrical Impedance Tomography in Biomedical Applications

Granot, Yair; Ivorra, Antoni; Rubinsky, Boris

doi:https://doi.org/10.1155/2007/54798

International Journal of Biomedical Imaging

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Volume 2007 | Article ID 054798 | https://doi.org/10.1155/2007/54798

Frequency-Division Multiplexing for Electrical Impedance Tomography in Biomedical Applications

Yair Granot,^1,2Antoni Ivorra,³and Boris Rubinsky^1,2,3

Academic Editor: Richard Bayford

Received22 Sept 2006

Revised22 Mar 2007

Accepted08 Jul 2007

Published02 Sept 2007

Abstract

Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) produces an image of the electrical impedance distribution of tissues in the body, using electrodes that are placed on the periphery of the imaged area. These electrodes inject currents and measure voltages and from these data, the impedance can be computed. Traditional EIT systems usually inject current patterns in a serial manner which means that the impedance is computed from data collected at slightly different times. It is usually also a time-consuming process. In this paper, we propose a method for collecting data concurrently from all of the current patterns in biomedical applications of EIT. This is achieved by injecting current through all of the current injecting electrodes simultaneously, and measuring all of the resulting voltages at once. The signals from various current injecting electrodes are separated by injecting different frequencies through each electrode. This is called frequency-division multiplexing (FDM). At the voltage measurement electrodes, the voltage related to each current injecting electrode is isolated by using Fourier decomposition. In biomedical applications, using different frequencies has important implications due to dispersions as the tissue's electrical properties change with frequency. Another significant issue arises when we are recording data in a dynamic environment where the properties change very fast. This method allows simultaneous measurements of all the current patterns, which may be important in applications where the tissue changes occur in the same time scale as the measurement. We discuss the FDM EIT method from the biomedical point of view and show results obtained with a simple experimental system.

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