Zhurnal Radioelektroniki - Journal of Radio Electronics. eISSN 1684-1719. 2021. №9
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.30898/1684-1719.2021.9.5
UDC: 53.083.2
RESEARCH ELECTRICal IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHy system suitable FOR making in OUT OF factory CONDITIONS
A. V. Korjenevsky
Kotelnikov Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics of RAS,
Mokhovaya 11-7, Moscow 125009, Russia
The paper was received on September 17, 2021
Abstract. The objective of this work is to present the first results of the development of an electrical impedance tomography system assembled from ready-made blocks with free software. Electrical impedance tomography is considered as a possible alternative and adjunct to computer tomography in lung diagnostics. One of the problems along this path is the mutual inaccessibility of equipment of an acceptable level for research physicians and of contacts with such physicians for the developers. An easily reproducible EIT hardware platform from ready-made modules and open source software have been developed and tested as an option for enthusiastic researchers who do not have sufficient experience to independently develop the hardware and software and the means to purchase expensive commercial devices. An evaluation board for an integrated bioimpedance meter, produced by the microcircuit manufacturer, is used to implement the main elements of the measuring system. The 16-channel multiplexers are also available as ready-made modules. A high-performance controller module based on a 32-bit system-on-chip ESP32 with built-in wireless interfaces has a compiler and SDK ported to the Arduino environment. This makes customization and testing of the embedded software possible for non-core professionals. Image reconstruction algorithms are available online on the Institute's server. Both dynamic (visualization of changes only) and static imaging are possible. The results of tomography system testing on the phantom and on the human body demonstrated the high quality of the data collected. Improving the speed of the measuring system and adding software functions, including the use of wireless interfaces for data transmission and direct interaction with the image reconstruction server are topical tasks.
Key words: medical electronics, physiological measurements, electrical impedance, inverse problems, lung diagnostics.
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Korjenevsky A.V. Research electrical impedance tomography system suitable for making in out of factory conditions. Zhurnal radioelektroniki [Journal of Radio Electronics] [online]. 2021. №9. https://doi.org/10.30898/1684-1719.2021.9.5 (In Russian)