Research Summary

Electrical Impedance Imaging is an emerging technology with the promise of making useful images of the body's interior from measurements made at electrodes on the body's surface. Such an imaging system could provide continuous, non-invasive, inexpensive, bedside monitoring for a variety of clinical abnormalities.

This laboratory is a leader in the development of this technology, and its application to clinical problems. In collaboration with Professors Isaacson and Cheney of the Departments of Mathematics and Computer Science, and Professors Gisser and Saulnier of the Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering Department, we have built hardware and software needed to test these systems, explore their ultimate limits, and test them in several clinical applications. This effort is expected to improve impedance imaging in disciplines such as materials testing, chemical processing, as well as biomedical and clinical applications.