Digital biomedical electrical impedance tomography based on FPGA

Jiani Wu, Xiaoyan Chen, Zhonglin Ding

School of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Tianjin University of Science & Technology, Tianjin, China.
School of Electronic and Automation, Tianjin University of Science & Technology, Tianjin, China.

DOI: 10.4236/jbm.2013.12004                

Abstract

A digital biomedical electrical impedance tomography (EIT) system is developed with the aid of FPGA. The key elements of EIT system are described specifically in the paper. The functions are realized to generate excitation source, switch electrode channels, deal collected signals, demodulate measured voltages etc. The system is tested by a circular tank with 16 stainless electrodes attached around the boundary. The adjacent incentive adjacent measurement mode is adapted to collect boundary voltages of the interesting field. By testing, the system works with 36 dB signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) when 1 mA 100 KHz current is applied into a homogenous tank.

Keywords

Electrical Impedance Tomography; FPGA; Direct Digital Synthesis; Orthogonal Sequences Demodulation

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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