Assessment of changes in distribution of lung perfusion by electrical impedance tomography

I Frerichs, S Pulletz, G Elke, F Reifferscheid… - Respiration, 2009 - karger.com
Background: Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is able to detect variations in regional
lung electrical impedance associated with changes in both air and blood content and …

Comparison of different methods to define regions of interest for evaluation of regional lung ventilation by EIT

S Pulletz, HR van Genderingen… - Physiological …, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
The measurement of regional lung ventilation by electrical impedance tomography (EIT) has
been evaluated in many experimental studies. However, EIT is not routinely used in a …

Linearity of electrical impedance tomography during maximum effort breathing and forced expiration maneuvers

C Ngo, S Leonhardt, T Zhang, M Lüken… - Physiological …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) provides global and regional information about
ventilation by means of relative changes in electrical impedance measured with electrodes …

Intravenous administration of normal saline may be misinterpreted as a change of end-expiratory lung volume when using electrical impedance tomography

V Sobota, M Mueller, K Roubik - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is a noninvasive imaging modality that allows real-
time monitoring of regional lung ventilation. The aim of the study is to investigate whether …

Ventilation and perfusion imaging by electrical impedance tomography: a comparison with radionuclide scanning

PWA Kunst, AV Noordegraaf… - Physiological …, 1998 - iopscience.iop.org
Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is a technique that makes it possible to measure
ventilation and pulmonary perfusion in a volume that approximates to a 2D plane. The …

Use of electrical impedance tomography (EIT) for the assessment of unilateral pulmonary function

RE Serrano, B De Lema, O Casas… - Physiological …, 2002 - iopscience.iop.org
We describe a fully automatable quantification process for the assessment of unilateral
pulmonary function (UPF) by means of EIT and propose a measurement protocol for its …

Reproducibility of regional lung ventilation distribution determined by electrical impedance tomography during mechanical ventilation

I Frerichs, G Schmitz, S Pulletz… - Physiological …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) has the potential to become a new tool for bedside
monitoring of regional lung ventilation. The aim of our study was to assess the reproducibility …

Regional ventilation distribution determined by electrical impedance tomography: reproducibility and effects of posture and chest plane

F Reifferscheid, G Elke, S Pulletz, B Gawelczyk… - …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Background and objective: Reliable assessment of regional lung ventilation and good
reproducibility of electrical impedance tomography (EIT) data are the prerequisites for the …

Imbalances in regional lung ventilation: a validation study on electrical impedance tomography

JA Victorino, JB Borges, VN Okamoto… - American journal of …, 2004 - atsjournals.org
Imbalances in regional lung ventilation, with gravity-dependent collapse and overdistention
of nondependent zones, are likely associated to ventilator-induced lung injury. Electric …

Spatial and temporal heterogeneity of regional lung ventilation determined by electrical impedance tomography during pulmonary function testing

B Vogt, S Pulletz, G Elke, Z Zhao… - Journal of applied …, 2012 - journals.physiology.org
Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is a functional imaging modality capable of tracing
continuously regional pulmonary gas volume changes. The aim of our study was to …