We review theoretical and numerical studies of the inverse problem of electrical impedance tomography which seeks the electrical conductivity and permittivity inside a body, given simultaneous measurements of electrical currents and potentials at the boundary. (Some figures in this article are in colour only in the electronic version)

This paper surveys some of the work our group has done in electrical impedance tomography.

Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is a technology developed to image the electrical conductivity distribution of a conductive medium. The technology is of interest because of its low cost and also because the measurement of the electrical conductivity brings direct information about the composition of the conductive medium. Because the ground is conductive to a certain extent, the technolog...

Employment of technical equipment and devices increased intensely in anaesthesiology and intensive care medicine respectively during the last decades. Regarding mechanical ventilation, which is of outstanding clinical value up to date, lots of modes, parameters and features have been developed and technically implemented in modern respirators [1]. Although the ARDS network encouraged scientific...

Electrical Capacitance Tomography is a non intruding technique used in industries. It is based on measuring the capacitance of multi-electrode ECT sensor produced by the change in dielectricity or due to change in concentration of material. With the use of computed values, a cross sectional image of the material placed in the dielectric medium is obtained. ECT system can be used in chemical fie...

Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is a noninvasive type of medical imaging in which the electrical conductivity, permittivity, and impedance of a part of the body is inferred from surface electrode measurements and used to form a tomographic image of that part. Electrical conductivity varies considerably among various biological tissues (absolute EIT) or the movement of fluids and gases wit...

[1] Electrical impedance tomography aims to recover the electrical conductivity underground from surface and/or borehole apparent resistivity measurements. This is a highly nonlinear inverse problem, and linearized inverse methods are likely to produce solutions corresponding to local minima of the misfit function to minimize. In the present paper, electrical impedance tomography is addressed t...

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