Medical applications of electrical tomography

摘要

While electrical capacitance tomography (ECT) and electrical impedance tomography (EIT) have found many successful industrial applications, only recently, research into medical applications of ECT and EIT were carried out at University of Manchester and Chiba University, including (1) Visualization of tooth surface by ECT for tooth canal treatment, (2) Visualization by ECT and EIT for revision hip replacement surgery, (3) Microfluidics for cell sensing and manipulation, (4) Imaging clots in blood flows and (5) Non-intrusive diagnosis of lymph problems. This paper will review the above medical applications of electrical tomography, from necessity of the work or problems to be addressed, sensing principles, experiment arrangement to some initial results. In addition, other research related to medical application of electrical tomography will also be briefly reviewed, such as by Swisstom AG in Switzerland, Dartmouth College in USA and some universities in China.