Simulation Study on Electrical Impedance Tomography of Collapsed Lung Based on TwIST-TV Regularization Algorithm
1 Aeronautical Automation College, Civil Aviation University of China, Tianjin 300300, China
2 School of Electrical Engineering & Automation, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
Abstract:Thoracic electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is a noninvasive, radiationfree monitoring technique for reconstruction of the crosssectional image of the internal spatial distribution of conductivity from electrical measurements made by injecting small alternating currents via an electrode array placed on the surface of the thorax. To solve the illposed problem of EIT, a twostep iterative shrinkage/threshholding algorithm (TwIST) based on total variation (TV) regularization was proposed in this paper. This algorithm used an iterative method with TV denoising operator, so it can achieve double regularization effect. Three dimensional (3D) EIT models of collapsed lung under different conditions were built up, and this algorithm was adopted to reconstruct differential images of respiratory status. And EIT derived numeric index was also employed for evaluation of lung ventilation. The results showed that the TV-TwIST method can further improve image quality and stability compared with traditional Tikhonov regularization method. And the corresponding evaluation index based on
TV-TwIST algorithm also behaved better than that based on Tikhonov regularization. Therefore, the results verified the feasibility of this algorithm applied to clinical use for ventilation monitoring of patients with collapsedlung.
范文茹1*王化祥2 郝魁红1 马敏1FAN Wen Ru1*WANG Hua Xiang2 HAO Kui Hong1 MA Min1. Simulation Study on Electrical Impedance Tomography of Collapsed Lung Based on TwIST-TV Regularization Algorithm. journal1, 2013, 32(1): 1-6.
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