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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 08, 1994
Filed:
Dec. 16, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
1286531 ; 36441313 ;
Abstract
A method of practicing electrical impedance tomography produces three-dimensional images of a body. First, one applies certain special current patterns to the body through an array of electrodes attached to the surface. For each current pattern, one measures the voltage at each electrode, thus obtaining a corresponding pattern of voltages. These data are then used in a certain special reconstruction process, which enables a full three-dimensional reconstruction to be done in a short time. The result is a display of an approximation to the electric conductivity and/or electric permittivity in the interior of the body.