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In Electrical Impedance Tomography current is injected into a body and voltage is measured to estimate the impedance or conductivity distribution inside the body. In many implementations, the current is injected through a pair of electrodes while the other electrodes are measuring the voltage. Then, the system continues to the next pair of electrodes and injects current, while measuring the voltage with the remaining electrodes. In some systems, two sets of electrodes are used, one for voltage measurements and the other set for current injection. We propose a method of injecting current through all of the current injecting electrodes simultaneously, and measuring all of the resulting voltages at once. Each current injecting electrode is marked by injecting a unique frequency for that electrode. At the voltage measurement electrodes, the voltage related to each current injecting electrode is isolated by using a Fourier transform. This method is beneficial in instances where tissue impedance is changing fast. The underlying assumption is that the impedance is changing from one measurement to another but slowly enough to be considered constant during a single measurement.
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Granot, Y., Rubinsky, B. (2007). Frequency Marked Electrodes in Electrical Impedance Tomography. In: Scharfetter, H., Merwa, R. (eds) 13th International Conference on Electrical Bioimpedance and the 8th Conference on Electrical Impedance Tomography. IFMBE Proceedings, vol 17. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73841-1_99
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