A Discussion on the Algorithm Design of Electrical Impedance Tomography for Biomedical Applications

Abstract

In this paper, we present a discussion on the algorithms design of Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) for biomedical applications. Based on the Maxwell differential equations and the derived the finite element(FE) linear equations, we first investigate the possibility to estimate the matrix that contains the impedance values based on Singular Value Decomposition(SVD) approximations. Secondly based on the biomedical properties we further explore the possibility to recover the impedance values uniquely by injecting various different types of currents with multi-frequency. Injecting various types of multi-frequency currents lead to a set of different measured voltages configurations, thus enhance the possibility of uniquely recovering the impedance values in a stable way under the assumption that the biological cells respond to the different type of injecting currents in a different way.