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Bioimpedance in Biomedical Applications and Research

Abstract

The aim of this chapter is to give a general view of different applications where EBI and EBIS can play a role. We offer a global glimpse to the readers and some bibliographic references on them, so that, if somebody has a particular interest, he/she can have an initial approach into it. Applications of electrical impedance tomography (EIT) are not considered (see chapter in this book by R Bayford and also Bayford and Tizzard 2012 and Holder 2005), but we do have included some EBIS applications not mentioned in some of the reviews previously published in the literature (Bera 2014, Coffman and Cohen 2013, and the series published in 1996 in the volume 24 of the journal Critical Reviews in Biomedical Engineering by: Valentinuzzi (1996), Rigaud et al. (1996), Valentinuzzi et al. (1996), Rigaud and Morucci (1996), Morucci and Marsili (1996), and Morucci and Rigaud (1996)).

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Brown et al. (2000), for instance, use R for R e, S for R i, and C for C m, while Grimmes and Martinsen (2000) use the symbols G, R, and C, respectively.

  2. 2.

    Some authors use α instead of 1 − α (Brown et al. 1999). Attention has to be paid to the expression being used, as, according to which one is selected, both alphas are complements to 1 (or 100). For example, using the first expression, α = 1 would mean α = 0 if the second expression is to be used, being both equivalent to the Debye model, i.e., the latter is a specific case of the Cole-Cole model.

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    MeSH is the thesaurus of Medline and PubMed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) and the National Library of Medicine (NLM) of the United States. Webpage: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh.

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