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Portable Electrical Impedance Tomography for Enhanced Thorax Monitoring and Pulmonary Diagnosis

Year: 2025

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: Pulmonary diseases are among the leading causes of mortality rate worldwide. This paper discusses the use of Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) in monitoring thorax models. The study involved using a low cost and portable existing EIT system to evaluate the performance of the system through image reconstruction. Different experiments involving single objects placed on the boundary, in the center, and with contrasting electrical properties were performed. The results showed that the system was able to successfully detect and localize objects by their electrical impedance. The EIT system was then used to test the agar-based thorax phantom. First, the capability of the system to accurately detect and localize the lung region was established by testing only the lung model. Furthermore, when the thorax model, including both the heart and lung models was tested, the EIT system clearly highlighted the heart and lungs. These findings indicate that the EIT system has potential to significantly advance the diagnosis of thoracic conditions.

DOI: 10.1109/icmac64768.2025.11003260

Authors: Mahnoor Sagheer, Muhammad Qasim Mehmood, Muhammad Zubair, Muhammad Ali Imran, Qammer H. Abbasi

Institutions: Information Technology University, University of the Punjab, University of Glasgow

Language: English

Topic: Electrical and Bioimpedance Tomography

Subfield: Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Field: Engineering

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funder: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

Awards: APP17382: EPSRC-SFI: Active intelligent Reconfigurable surfaces for 6G wireless COMmunications (AR-COM), CHEDDAR: Communications Hub for Empowering Distributed clouD computing Applications and Research - TMF uplift, CHEDDAR: Communications Hub For Empowering Distributed ClouD Computing Applications And Research