ArticlePloS one2016
Effect of Electrode Belt and Body Positions on Regional Pulmonary Ventilation- and Perfusion-Related Impedance Changes Measured by Electric Impedance Tomography.
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- Lung electrical impedance tomography during positioning, weaning and chest physiotherapy in mechanically ventilated critically ill patients: a narrative review.Annals of intensive care · 2025Review
- Thoracic Electrical Impedance Tomography-The 2022 Veterinary Consensus Statement.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2022Review
- Effect of Position Change From the Bed to a Wheelchair on the Regional Ventilation Distribution Assessed by Electrical Impedance Tomography in Patients With Respiratory Failure.Frontiers in medicine · 2021Article
- Measurement of relative lung perfusion with electrical impedance and positron emission tomography: an experimental comparative study in pigs.British journal of anaesthesia · 2019Article
- Lung monitoring with electrical impedance tomography: technical considerations and clinical applications.Journal of thoracic disease · 2019Review
- Electrical impedance tomography: Amplitudes of cardiac related impedance changes in the lung are highly position dependent.PloS one · 2017Article
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Abstract
Ventilator-induced or ventilator-associated lung injury (VILI/VALI) is common and there is an increasing demand for a tool that can optimize ventilator settings. Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) can detect changes in impedance caused by pulmonary ventilation and perfusion, but the effect of changes in the position of the body and in the placing of the electrode belt on the impedance signal have not to our knowledge been thoroughly evaluated. We therefore studied ventilation-related and perfusion-related changes in impedance during spontaneous breathing in 10 healthy subjects in five different body positions and with the electrode belt placed at three different thoracic positions using a 32-electrode EIT system. We found differences between regions of interest that could be attributed to changes in the position of the body, and differences in impedance amplitudes when the position of the electrode belt was changed. Ventilation-related changes in impedance could therefore be related to changes in the position of both the body and the electrode belt. Perfusion-related changes in impedance were probably related to the interference of major vessels. While these findings give us some insight into the sources of variation in impedance signals as a result of changes in the positions of both the body and the electrode belt, further studies on the origin of the perfusion-related impedance signal are needed to improve EIT further as a tool for the monitoring of pulmonary ventilation and perfusion.
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