Real-Time Monitoring of Contact Impedance From Multiple Electrode–Scalp Interfaces During Cerebral Electrical Impedance Tomography

作者：Hang Ma, Haoting Li, Xuechao Liu, Weichen Li, Junying Xia, Benyuan Liu, Xuetao Shi, Xiuzhen Dong, Feng Fu · 发表于：IEEE Access · 年份：2019 · DOI：10.1109/access.2019.2928580 · 被引用次数：25 · 研究领域：Electrical and Bioimpedance Tomography、Hemodynamic Monitoring and Therapy、Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies

Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is a promising medical technique for monitoring brain injury through the reflection of electrical impedance changes in internal brain tissues. However, the contact impedances at the electrode-scalp interfaces can still notably affect the EIT accuracy. Hence, we propose a method for real-time monitoring the multi-channel contact impedances of cerebral EIT using a reference electrode attached close to the head vertex. This method allows to approximate inter-channel differences and changes over time of multi-channel contact impedances. The experimental results on 36 volunteers show that the maximum relative inter-channel difference obtained from 16 disposable surface electrodes reaches 18.7%, and the maximum relative change over time reaches 19.2%. The proposed method can assist clinicians in real-time monitoring of contact conditions from the multiple electrode-scalp interfaces during the clinical application of the cerebral EIT.