Using Electrical Tomography for Remote Monitoring Cardiopulmonary State of Patients by Complementary Investigation Techniques

This article describes an advanced electrical tomography platform for biomedical applications. The collection of tomographic data must be as fast as reliable to include reconstruction algorithms with real-time updates. The paper presents system architecture and prototype designs for biomedical electrical tomography. The system consists of a device that allows simultaneous recording of the electrical potential of cardiac function and lung ventilation. Electrical tomography for lung and heart monitoring is a non-invasive imaging method in which an unknown physical object is examined using electrical currents applied at the border. The internal conductivity distribution is recovered from the measured boundary voltage data.