A FPGA-Based Broadband EIT system for complex bioimpedance measurements : design and performance estimation

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MDPI
Erscheinungsjahr:
2015
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Schlagworte:
  • Bioimpedance measurements
  • Broadband impedance measurements
  • Chirp signal excitation
  • Electrical impedance tomography
  • Multi-frequency
  • Physics - Medical Physics
  • Physics - Medical Physics
  • 600: Technik
  • ddc:600
Beschreibung:
  • Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is an imaging method that is able to estimate the electrical conductivity distribution of living tissue. This work presents a field programmable gate array (FPGA)-based multi-frequency EIT system for complex, time-resolved bioimpedance measurements. The system has the capability to work with measurement setups with up to 16 current electrodes and 16 voltage electrodes. The excitation current has a range of about 10 μA to 5 mA, whereas the sinusoidal signal used for excitation can have a frequency of up to 500 kHz. Additionally, the usage of a chirp or rectangular signal excitation is possible. Furthermore, the described system has a sample rate of up to 3480 impedance spectra per second (ISPS). The performance of the EIT system is demonstrated with a resistor-based phantom and tank phantoms. Additionally, first measurements taken from the human thorax during a breathing cycle are presented.
  • PeerReviewed
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  • https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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