Ahmed Abdelwahab, Omid Rajabi Shishvan, Gary J Saulnier
The current source is one of the most critical circuits in electrical impedance tomography (EIT) hardware systems. The simplicity and excellent performance of the Howland current source makes it a prime candidate for this role in EIT systems. Although the Howland source and its family may be the best option for the high-frequency EIT operation, its low frequency noise may also limit the implementation of a system to simultaneously collect electrocardiogram (ECG) and EIT signals from the electrodes. This paper proposes modifications to the conventional Howland source to make is suitable for simultaneous EIT and ECG. The preliminary experimental results of this modified Howland show significant improvement in the collected ECG signal quality in the presence of the EIT signal.
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Giorgio Bonmassar, Sunao Iwaki, Gregory Goldmakher, Leonardo M Angelone, John W Belliveau, Michael H Lev
We are introducing a system for Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) measurements for future use in Neurological Intensive Care Unit (NICU) settings. The system consists mostly of commercially available components and the software was developed in Labview (National Instruments). The system is based on the principle that acute hemorrhagic stroke may produce detectable changes in the impedance spectrum measured on the subject's scalp due to parenchimal local increases of blood volume. EIS measurements were performed on four healthy control subjects to establish a baseline for a real time stroke detector. Measurements were performed using white noise currents in the 0-50 kHz frequency band using ten shielded electrodes placed on a subject's scalp, with electrical potentials measured with a large-dynamic range for increased EIS accuracy. EIS measurements yielded highly symmetrical impedance spectra, which was only obtainable using the proposed continuos spectral electrical impedance estimation.
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