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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.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 1995

Filed:

Jul. 23, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:

David Isaacson, Latham, NY (US);

Jonathan C Newell, Glenmont, NY (US);

David G Gisser, Albany, NY (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
36441313 ; 128734 ;
Abstract

A method in electrical impedance tomography uses an adaptive repeated series of calculations and measurements to determine the best current pattern for a body having an initially unknown internal conductivity, for producing the best electrical impedance image for the body. Initially, an arbitrary current pattern and conductivity is utilized to generate a voltage pattern which is measured and compared with the theoretical voltage pattern based on the arbitrary conductivity and current patterns. When both the current pattern and the conductivity yielded by the process closely match values derived by measurements, the voltage pattern is used to produce the image.


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