Electrode Placement Strategies for 3D EIT
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چکیده
We test strategies for placing EIT electrodes on a 3D medium for the purpose of calculating 3D reconstructions using clinical equipment intended for use with a 2D adjacent drive protocol. The goal of this work was to compare seven such strategies in order to determine if any were clearly superior to the others for clinical applications. For the limited set of strategies investigated, none were significantly better than the others in terms of performance under ideal conditions. However, when noise and electrode placement errors were considered the Planar Electrode Placement Strategy emerged as a recommended strategy for clinical use.
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