10th International Conference on Biomedical Applications of Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT 2009)

16th-19th June 2009

combined with

Workshop on Electromagnetic Inverse Problems

15th-18th June 2009

School of Mathematics, The University of Manchester, UK

This version updated Saturday 13th June 2009

Bill Lionheart, Richard Bayford, Eung-je Woo (Conference chairs)

Oliver Dorn (Workshop Chair)

ROOMS: Max Newman Room is G107 (ground floor), Frank Adams Room is on the first floor. The Atrium is the big open space on the ground floor. All plenaries are in Newman. Lunch and coffee breaks are all in the atrium. On Friday only we use Louis Mordell Room G209

Main conference web site http://www.maths.manchester.ac.uk/eit2009



Workshop on Electromagnetic Inverse Problems



15th-18th June 2009



The IP workshop starts on Monday June 15th, 11:00 am.

The IP workshop finishes at lunchtime Thursday June 18th.

10th International Conference on Biomedical Applications of Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT 2009)

16th-19th June 2009





The EIT Conference starts on Tuesday June 16th, with registration from 10:00 and sessions starting at 11:00 am. It finishes at 12:30 on Friday June 19th

MON

































MON

(Monday June 15th schedule):



11:00 – 12:00 registration with coffee. (Atrium)



12:00 – 13:00 plenary talk Victor Isakov, Increasing stability in continuation and inverse problems (in Max Newman Room)(Talk)





13:00 – 14:00 lunch (Atrium)

FIRE ALARM TEST ABOUT 14:00.



(in Max Newman Room all day)

14:00 – 15:00

  1. Gregory Samelsohn: Diffuse wave tomography of heterogeneous structures

  2. A. Leitao: On multiple level-set regularization methods: Application to EIT and IPP



15:00 – 15:30 coffee break

15:30 – 16:30

  1. Corinna Burkard, Roland Potthast: A Time-Domain Probe Method for Three-dimensional Rough Surface Reconstructions

  2. Bastian Harrach: New uniqueness results in diffuse optical tomography



16:30 – 16:45 break

16:45 -17:45

  1. Sándor Bilicz, Marc Lambert, Emmanuel Vazquez, and Szabolcs Gyimóthy: Combination of Maximin and Kriging Prediction Methods for Eddy-Current Testing Database Generation

  2. D Lesnic and D.J Borman, The method of fundamental solutions for cavity detection

NO EIT conference on Monday







TUE

Tuesday June 16th schedule: ‘Geophysics Day from 10:30’

in Frank Adams Room all day



9:00 – 10:00



  1. W. K. Park, D. Lesselier On the level-set evolution of thin electromagnetic screens in the wave propagation regime

  2. R Gaburro and WRB Lionheart Determining Optical Properties in Anisotropic Materials

Tuesday June 16th:
















TUE

10:00 – 10:30 coffee break



10:30 – 11:30

  1. Roland Griesmaier: Reciprocity gap MUSIC imaging for an inverse scattering problem in layered media

  2. Darrell Coles & Andrew Curtis, A free lunch while designing experiments to estimate azimuthal anisotropy.

10:00-11:00 registration with coffee.



EIT sessions today in Max Newman Room

11:00- 12:00 first session: Clinical Applications I



  1. W Lionheart, R Bayford, E Woo, Opening remarks. See also Obituary for Eberhard Gersing.

  2. Helga Ross, Ben Chow, and Andy Adler, EIT Measurement of Heart and Lung Perfusion

  3. O. Trokhanova, M. Okhapkin and A. Korjenevsky , Using electrical impedance mammography for diagnostics of focal lumps in mammary glands

  4. A. Borsic , M. Soleimani , O. Dorn , R. Halter , A. Hartov , K. D. Paulsen, Breast Imaging with Electrical Impedance Tomography: a comparison of traditional Quadratic regularization, Total Variation regularization and Level Set Method on in vivo data


12:00 – 13:00 plenary talk: Aria Abubakar Nonlinear Imaging and Inversion Approaches for Large-Scale Geophysical Electromagnetic Measurements. ( in Max Newman Room)

12:00 – 13:00 plenary talk: Aria Abubakar Nonlinear Imaging and Inversion Approaches for Large-Scale Geophysical Electromagnetic Measurements.

TUE

13:00 – 14:00 lunch



14:00 – 15:00



  1. P. B. Wilkinson, P. I. Meldrum, J. E. Chambers, O. Kuras & R. D. Ogilvy: Optimised survey design for geoelectrical resistivity tomography

  2. Bruce Hobbs, Guangpin Li and Johnathan Linfoot, 3D focussing inversion of multi-transient EM data in the frequency domain

13:00 – 14:00 lunch



14:00 – 15:00 Clinical Applications II ( IVH etc)



  1. S. Turovets, P. Poolman, A. Salman, K. Li, A. Malony and D.Tucker, Bounded Electrical Impedance Tomography for Noninvasive Conductivity Estimation of Human Head Tissues

  2. S. Watson, H.C. Wee, R. Patz, R.J. Williams, M. Zolgharni, H. Griffiths Detection of peripheral haemorrhagic cerebral stroke by magnetic induction tomography: phantom measurements

  3. J M Khor, A Tizzard, A Demosthenous and R. Bayford, Development of wearable device for dynamic boundary shape estimation in neonatal Electrical Impedance Tomography,

  4. Discussion

TUE

15:00 – 15:30 coffee break



15:30-16:30



  1. Nuno Vieira da Silva, Joanna Morgan, Lucy McGregor, Mike Warner: Marine CSEM multi-source modelling for data inversion

  2. Christophe Ramananjaona and Lucy MacGregor: 2.5D inversion of marine CSEM data in a vertically anisotropic earth

15:00 – 15:30 coffee break



15:30-16:30 Magnetic Resonance EIT

  1. Chang-Ock Lee, Seonmin Ahn, and Kiwan Jeon, Denoising of Bz Data for Conductivity Reconstruction in MREIT

  2. Atul S. Minhas, Hyung Joong Kim, Young Tae Kim, Woo Chul Jeong, Tae Hwi Lee, Eung Je Woo and Soo Yeol Lee, Chemical Shift Artifact Correction in MREIT using 3-point Dixon Technique

  3. A. Borsic, K. D. Paulsen, Safety Study for Induced Current Magnetic Resonance – Electrical Impedance Tomography in Breast Imaging

  4. Kiwan Jeon, Chang-Ock Lee, Eung Je Woo and Jin Keun Seo, CoReHA: conductivity reconstructor using harmonic algorithms for magnetic resonance electrical impedance tomography (MREIT)













TUE

16:30 – 17:45 Joint Session



  1. Fernando Silva de Moura, Agenor de Toledo Fleury and Raul Gonzalez Lima, Dynamic Imaging of a Human Chest Using the Kalman Filter in Electrical Impedance Tomographyn on EIT Reconstruction I (parallel session)

  2. Alex Hartov, Ryan Halter, Andrea Borsic, Yuqing Wan, Preston Manwaring, Keith Paulsen Spatially registered 3D ultrasound and reconstructed Impedance of the prostate

  3. Hussein El Dib, Andrew Tizzard and Richard Bayford, Dynamic Electrical Impedance Tomography for Neonate Lung Function Monitoring using Linear Kalman Filter

  4. F.C.Trigo, R.G. Lima and A.T. Fleury Adaptive Iterated Extended Kalman Filter for Electrical Impedance Tomography

  5. Aku Seppänen, Kimmo Karhunen, Nuutti Hyvönen, Jari P. Kaipio, Adaptive meshing approach to localization of internal electrodes with EIT

16:30 – 17:45 EIT Hardware I (parallel session)



  1. S. Mohammad-Samuri, M. A. Denaï, G. Panoutsos, M. Mahfouf, D. A. Linkens, T. Meekings, G. H. Mills , B. H. Brown, The Sheffield Mk3.5 Absolute Resistivity aEIT System: Review of Recent Updates

  2. A. Korjenevsky, New mixed signal microcontroller as universal workhorse of bio-impedance equipment: intraoperative myocardium monitor example

  3. Aktharuzzaman, Tanvir Noor Baig and K Siddique-e Rabbani, Design of a Microcontroller Based 4-Electrode Focused Impedance Measurement (FIM) System

  4. H.C. Wee, S Watson, R Patz, H Griffiths, RJ Williams Design and performance of the Cardiff Mk2 magnetic Induction Tomography System

  5. H Hong, A Demosthenous, M Rahal, and RH Bayford, A Current Source for Bio-impedance Measurements

WED

Wednesday June 17th

(in Frank Adams Room)

09:00 – 10:00

  1. Michael Fernando: A novel simplified mathematical model for antennas used in medical imaging applications

  2. Sara Van den Bulcke and Ann Franchois: 2.5D microwave inversion of dielectric objects using Value Picking regularization

Wednesday June 17th

(in Max Newman Room, note there is another conference today sharing the building)

09:00 – 10:00 Mixed EIT session

  1. Robert Patterson, Jie Zhang, The measurement of absolute lung resistivity

  2. Ali Zifan and Panos Liatsis, Discrete Orthogonal Wavelet Design for Neonatal EIT Signal Processing

  3. Tushar Kanti Bera and J. Nagaraju, A Reconfigurable Practical Phantom for Studying the Forward Problem of 2 D Electrical Impedance

  4. J.L. Davidson, P. Wright, S.T. Ahsan, R. Robinson, C.J.D. Pomfrett and H. McCann, fEITER - A New Biomedical EIT Instrument for OR and ICU Applications















WED

10:00 – 10:30 coffee break (group photo?)



10:30 – 11:00 Poster session I in Atrium



11:00 – 12:00

  1. Frank Natterer: Wave equation imaging by consecutive time reversal.

  2. J. D. Shea, P. Kosmas, B. D. Van Veen, and S. C. Hagness : Three-dimensional microwave tomography for breast imaging and cancer detection

10:00 – 10:30 coffee break (group photo)



10:30 – 11:00 Poster session I (joint EIT / IP) in Atrium



11:00 – 12:00 MIT and other Electromagnetic Imaging



  1. M. Zolgharni, P. D. Ledger, C. Ktistis, B. Dekdouk, H. Griffiths, High-Contrast Frequency-Difference Imaging for Magnetic Induction Tomography

  2. T. Tuykin, V. Cherepenin and А. Korjenevsky Experimental Demonstration of the Electric Field Tomography

  3. M. Zolgharni, P. D. Ledger, H. Griffiths Imaging Cerebral Haemorrhage with Magnetic Induction Tomography: Required Phase Noise Level

  4. Discussion

WED

12:00 – 13:00 plenary talk Habib Ammari: Multi-scale imaging of defects. (in Max Newman Room

12:00 – 13:00 plenary talk Habib Ammari: Multi-scale imaging of defects.





















WED

13:00 – 14:00 lunch



14:00 – 15:30 Joint Session MIT and EIT Reconstruction II



  1. B. Dekdouk, C. Ktistis, D. W. Armitage and A. J. Peyton An Investigation of Smoothing and Edge Preserving Regularisation Operators an Magnetic Induction Tomography

  2. H. Scharfetter, S. Issa, D. Gürsoy, Image reconstruction in magnetic induction tomography without using a phase reference channel

  3. C. Ktistis, B. Dekdouk, D. W. Armitage and A. J. Peyton, The Use of Optimisation Techniques for Image Reconstruction in Magnetic Induction Tomography

  4. G. Meriadec, Y. Maimaitijiang, M.A. Roula, S. Watson and R.J. Williams, Acceleration of Finite Difference algorithm on GPU for application in Magnetic Induction Tomography

  5. D. Teichmann, R. Pikkemaat, H. Luepschen and S. Leonhardt EIT of the Thorax Considering Organ-Shapes by Using an Inhomogeneous and Anisotropic Laplacian Regularization Matrix

  6. Sung Chan Jun, Sujin Ahn, Jin Keun Seo, Jeehyun Lee, Eung Je Woo, and David Holder, Three dimensional Numerical Simulation Study for Frequency-difference Electrical Impedance Tomography

13:00 – 14:00 lunch (also steering committee meeting )



14:00 – 15:30 EIT Hardware II (parallel session)



  1. S. Talha Ahsan, P. Wright, J. L. Davidson and H. McCann, High-speed, low-noise digital phase-sensitive demodulation for EIT

  2. Daniel Anton, Jose M. Balleza and Pere J Riu, Compact EIT System for Ventilation Monitoring

  3. Ioan Jivet, Beniamin Drago, Design of On-electrode Electronics for EIT

  4. Mohamad Rahal, Andreas Demosthenous, and Richard Bayford, A Discrete Development of an EIT System for Neonatal Applications

  5. Sapetsky S.A, Bobrov A.A., Yushchenko G.V. An impedance meter for a universal system for radio-frequency cancer destruction

  6. A. S. Tucker, R. J. Sadleir, Tang Te, Preliminary Results from the E-Pack2: a Portable EIT System Optimized for Detecting Hemoperitoneum













WED

15:30 – 16:00 coffee break

16:00 – 17:45 Joint session EIT Reconstruction III

  1. Alistair Boyle, William R.B. Lionheart, and Andy Adler, Characterizing Artifacts due to Boundary Distortion in Electrical Impedance Tomography

  2. Maciej Panczyk, Jan Sikora, BEM 3D numerical models of the human breast for optical mammography

  3. Doga Gursoy, Hermann Scharfetter, The effect of anisotropic tissues on the reconstructed images of magnetic induction tomography

  4. A. Borsic , A. Adler, A Primal Dual – Interior Point Framework for EIT Reconstruction and Regularization with 1-Norm and 2-Norm

  5. Kimmo Karhunen, Aku Seppänen, Anssi Lehikoinen and Jari P. Kaipio Electrical Impedance Tomography for Imaging Concrete

  6. Discussion


19:00 Conference Dinner in the Tai Pan.

15:30 – 16:00 coffee break

16:00 – 17:45 EIT and MIT Hardware III (parallel session)

  1. Hun Wi and Eung Je Woo, Design of multi-frequency FIM and PHI system

  2. Ralf Patz, Stuart Watson, Christos Ktistis, Matthias Hamsch, RJ Williams, Tony Peyton An FPGA-based signal measurement module for Magnetic Induction Tomography

  3. Hun Wi and Eung Je Woo, Design of KHU Mark2 Multi-frequency EIT System

  4. Chandana P. Tamma, Gary J. Saulnier, Myoung H. Choi, David Isaacson and Jonathan C. Newell, Desired Current pattern generation using Adaptive Voltage Sources in ACT4

  5. Discussion





19:00 Conference Dinner in the Tai Pan.



















THURS

Thursday June 18th :

in Frank Adams Room

09:00 – 10:00



  1. Masoumeh Dashti, Andrew Stuart: Bayesian Approach to an Elliptic Inverse Problem

  2. Boris Marx, Roland Potthast: On Dynamic Tomography for a Fuel Cell Application




Thursday June 18th : “Lung EIT day” (in Max Newman Room)

09:00 – 10:00 Clinical Applications III (Lung EIT)



  1. A. Just, G. Hahn, J. Dittmar, G. Hellige, Comparison of thoracic gas volume (TGV) to resistivity of the lungs determined by absolute EIT in two cross-sectional planes

  2. Bartłomiej Grychtol, Andy Adler, Gerhard K Wolf, John H Arnold Automatic classification of collapsed, ventilated and over-distended lung tissue from EIT images

  3. M Bodenstein, S Boehme, HM Wang, K Markstaller, M. David , Early regional changes of pulmonary aeration distribution in different porcine models of acute lung injury

  4. G. Hahn, A. Just, J. Dittmar, G. Hellige Further steps in quantifying lung properties by functional EIT of the chest


10:00 – 10:30 coffee break



10:30 – 11:30



  1. S Arridge Diffuse Optical and Photo-Acoustic Tomography

  2. Y Kurylev:Mathematics of Invisibility and Inverse Problems.













11:30 – 12:00 Poster session II (IP and EIT) in the atrium

10:00 – 10:30 coffee break



10:30 – 11:30 Clinical Applications IV (Lung EIT) parallel session



  1. G. Hahn, A. Just, J. Dittmar, G. Hellige, Distribution of local air content in the lungs during parabolic flights determined by absolute EIT

  2. G. Hellige, H. Truebel, E.-M. Becker, J. Dittmar, A. Just, G. Hahn The assessment of ventilation-perfusion ratios by Electrical Impedance Tomography

  3. José M. Balleza, Pere Casan, Pere J Riu Tidal Volume Monitoring by Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) on COPD patients. Relationship with DL,CO.

  4. G. Elke, G. Zick, D. Schädler, S. Pulletz, F. Reifferscheid, J. Scholz, N. Weiler, I. Frerichs, Influence of lung protective mechanical ventilation on regional ventilation distribution in experimental lung injury.

11:30 – 12:00 Poster session II (IP and EIT)


12:00 – 13:00 plenary talk Mark Nelson Electrosensory data acquisition and signal processing strategies in electric fish (Live video link)

12:00 – 13:00 plenary talk Mark Nelson Electrosensory data acquisition and signal processing strategies in electric fish(Live video link)









THURS

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch (official end of IP Workshop)

13:00 – 14:00 lunch

14:00-16:00 Special session: EIT lung imaging - on the way to a clinical use

  1. Inéz Frerichs Introduction to EIT lung imaging

  2. Ola Stenqvist  Monitoring of lung ventilation

  3.  Marcelo B.P. Amato,  Monitoring of lung perfusion

  4. John H. Arnold, Monitoring in neonates and children

             



16:00-16:15 break

16:15-17:30 Clinical Applications V Lung EIT



  1. Dae Hyun Lee, Hun Wi, Eung Je Woo and Jin Keun Seo, Multi-frequency Time-difference EIT Imaging of Lungs using KHU Mark

  2. Muhammad Abdul Kadir, Tanvir Noor. Baig and K S Rabbani Application of 6-Electrode Focused Impedance Method (FIM) to study lungs ventilation

  3. Sven Pulletz, Matthias Kott, Gunnar Elke, Florian Reifferscheid, Barbara Gawelczyk, Jens Scholz, Inéz Frerichs, Norbert Weiler PEEP adjustment based on regional lung opening pressures determined by EIT

  4. T. Muders, J. Zinserling H. Luepschen, S. Leonhardt, C. Putensen and H. Wrigge, Monitoring of cyclic opening and closing of ventilatory lung units by Electrical Impedance Tomography

  5. A Adler J H Arnold R Bayford A Borsic B Brown P Dixon T J C Faes I Frerichs H Gagnon Y Gärber B Grychtol G Hahn W R B Lionheart A Malik R P Patterson J Stocks A Tizzard N Weiler G K Wolf, Validation and parameter selection for the GREIT reconstruction alg

FRIDAY



















FRIDAY
















Friday 19th

Frank Adams Room



09:00 – 10:30 EIT Modelling and Reconstruction parallel session



  1. Panagiotis Kantartzis, Panos Liatsis, Beyond standard piecewise smooth basis functions for EIT

  2. A. Borsic , R. Halter , Y. Wan , A. Hartov , K. D. Paulsen Sensitivity Study and Optimization of a 3D Electric Impedance Tomography Prostate Probe

  3. P. Kantartzis, and P. Liatsis An EIT formulation for non-static boundary surfaces

  4. Alex Hartov, Ryan Halter, Andrea Borsic, Yuqing Wan, Preston Manwaring, Keith Paulsen, Spatially co-registered 3D ultrasound and reconstructed impedance of the prostate

  5. Discussions

Friday 19th

Note: now in Louis Mordell Room G209



09:00 – 10:30 Tissue Impedance, Phantoms and Electrodes I



  1. P. Manwaring, Y. Wan, R. Halter, A. Borsic, A. Hartov, K. Paulsen, A new material enabling compartmentalized and dynamic liquid EIT phantoms

  2. M A Sayem Karal and K S Rabbani, Sensitivity of Four-electrode Focused Impedance Method (FIM) for objects with different conductivity

  3. Young Tae Kim, Atul S. Minhas, Woo Chul Jeong, Hyung Joong Kim, Tae Hwi Lee, Byeong Teck Kang, Hee Myung Park, Jin Keun Seo, and Eung Je Woo, Conductivity imaging of Canine Male Pelvis Using a 3T MREIT System: postmortem experiment

  4. Young Tae Kim, Hyung Joong Kim, Woo Chul Jeong, Atul S. Minhas, Tae Hwi Lee, Jin Keun Seo, O Jung Kwon, and Eung Je Woo, In Vivo MREIT Conductivity Imaging of Human Calf

  5. R. Pikkemaat, D. Teichmann, H. Luepschen and S. Leonhardt, Extended Ventral Electrode Patterns for 3D Electrical Impedance Tomography in Time-Critical and Intensive Care Applications

  6. Y. Wan, R. Halter, P. Manwaring, A. Borsic, A. Hartov, K. Paulsen, Transrectal electrical impedance measuring system combined with ultrasound for prostate screening









FRIDAY

10:30 – 11:00 coffee break



11:00 – 12:00 EIT Modelling and Reconstruction parallel session



  1. P. Kantartzis, and P. Liatsis, A periodic setting for EIT

  2. Waldemar Smolik Evaluation of Nonlinear Optimization Iterative Image Reconstruction Algorithm In Electrical Capacitance Tomography Using Real Measurement

  3. Naimul Islam, K S Rabbani, and Adrian Wilson,Sensitivity of focussed electrical impedance measurements






There are tentative plans for a short EIDORS tutorial with Andy Adler.

10:30 – 11:00 coffee break



11:00 – 12:30 Tissue Impedance, Phantoms and Electrodes II



  1. Atul S. Minhas, Young Tae Kim, Hyung Joong Kim, Woo Chul Jeong, Tae Hwi Lee, Byeong Teck Kang, Hee Myung Park, Jin Keun Seo, and Eung Je Woo, Tissue Characterization of Canine Abdomen Using a 3T MREIT System: postmortem experiment

  2. Hervé Gagnon, Yannick Sigmen, Alzbeta E. Hartinger and Robert Guardo An active phantom to assess the robustness of EIT systems to electrode contact impedance variations

  3. K.S.. Rabbani and Kamila Afroj, Pigeon hole imaging (PHI) – A new modality for probing the human body

  4. Kamila Afroj and K.S. Rabbani, Image correction in pigeon hole imaging (PHI) using a novel image smearing technique

  5. Discussion





12:30 EIT Conference Ends



We are hoping there will be a possibility for a small group to visit the Maurice Beck Laboratory in EEE home of Process Tomography and of fEITER. Details of this and any other informal activities after the meeting will be announced at the meeting.


POSTER Sessions. A separate list of papers in the poster sessions will be available during the week.