Principles of electrical impedance tomography and its clinical application

M Bodenstein, M David, K Markstaller - Critical care medicine, 2009 - journals.lww.com
Objective: This review outlines the basic principle, in addition to validated and upcoming
clinical use of electrical impedance tomography (EIT). EIT generates functional tomograms …

Whither lung EIT: where are we, where do we want to go and what do we need to get there?

A Adler, MB Amato, JH Arnold, R Bayford… - Physiological …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Breathing moves volumes of electrically insulating air into and out of the lungs, producing
conductivity changes which can be seen by electrical impedance tomography (EIT). It has …

Physiologic effect of high-flow nasal cannula in infants with bronchiolitis

JL Hough, TMT Pham, A Schibler - Pediatric Critical Care …, 2014 - journals.lww.com
Objective: To assess the effect of delivering high-flow nasal cannula flow on end-expiratory
lung volume, continuous distending pressure, and regional ventilation distribution in infants …

Assessment of changes in distribution of lung perfusion by electrical impedance tomography

I Frerichs, S Pulletz, G Elke, F Reifferscheid… - Respiration, 2009 - karger.com
Background: Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is able to detect variations in regional
lung electrical impedance associated with changes in both air and blood content and …

Transmission of oscillatory volumes into the preterm lung during noninvasive high-frequency ventilation

VD Gaertner, AD Waldmann, PG Davis… - American journal of …, 2021 - atsjournals.org
Rationale: There is increasing evidence for a clinical benefit of noninvasive high-frequency
oscillatory ventilation (nHFOV) in preterm infants. However, it is still unknown whether the …

Optimized breath detection algorithm in electrical impedance tomography

D Khodadad, S Nordebo, B Müller… - Physiological …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective: This paper defines a method for optimizing the breath delineation algorithms used
in electrical impedance tomography (EIT). In lung EIT the identification of the breath phases …

Clinical performance of a novel textile interface for neonatal chest electrical impedance tomography

L Sophocleous, I Frerichs, M Miedema… - Physiological …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective: Critically ill neonates and infants might particularly benefit from continuous chest
electrical impedance tomography (EIT) monitoring at the bedside. In this study a textile 32 …

Measurement of ventilation and cardiac related impedance changes with electrical impedance tomography

CA Grant, T Pham, J Hough, T Riedel, C Stocker… - Critical Care, 2011 - Springer
Introduction Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) has been shown to be able to
distinguish both ventilation and perfusion. With adequate filtering the regional distributions …

Effect of body position on ventilation distribution in preterm infants on continuous positive airway pressure

JL Hough, L Johnston, SG Brauer… - Pediatric Critical Care …, 2012 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: To investigate the effect of body position on regional ventilation in preterm
infants on continuous positive airway pressure ventilatory support using electrical …

Effect of time and body position on ventilation in premature infants

J Hough, A Trojman, A Schibler - Pediatric research, 2016 - nature.com
Background: Infants with respiratory dysfunction undergo regular position changes to
improve lung function however it is not known how often a position change should occur …