Conference on Biomedical Applications of Electrical Impedance Tomography, University College London, June 22 – 24^th, 2005.

Final scientific programme 6^th international conference on Biomedical Applications of EIT.

Programme

All lectures will be in the Anatomy Lecture Theatre, UCL. All Tea and Coffee breaks and lunches will be in Old Refectory, UCL. (Maps and directions are in the separate document, Information for Delegates.)

	Wednesday, June 22^nd
12.00 p.m. on	Registration, Old Refectory, UCL
12.30 - 2.00 p.m.	Lunch, Old Refectory
1.55 p.m	Welcome and opening of conference.
2.00 - 3.30 p.m.	Reconstruction Algorithms 1 : EIDORS and the GRID
	Chairman : David Isaacson
2.00 p.m.	EIDORS: Towards a community-based extensible software base for EIT
	Andy Adler, William R.B. Lionheart
2.15	How to cheat in EIT reconstruction
	WRB Lionheart, A Adler
2.30	Use of computational GRID technologies
	M Molinari, SJ Cox
2.45	Applications of GRID in Clinical Neurophysiology and Electrical Impedance Tomography of brain function
	Juan Fritschy, Marzia De Lucia, Lior Horesh, Richard Bayford, David Holder
3.00 - 3.30	Discussion
3.30 - 4.00	Tea, Old Refectory
4.00 - 6.00 p.m.	Reconstruction Algorithms II
	Chairman : Bill Lionheart
4.00	Selecting the regularisation parameter for linear Electrical Impedance Tomography of brain function
	J F P J Abascal, S Arridge, D Holder, R Bayford,
4.15	Hyperparameter selection in EIT
	Brad Graham, Andy Adler
4.30	Image Reconstruction in Electrical Impedance Tomography Using the Full Set of Maxwell's Equations.
	N. K. Soni, K. D. Paulsen, H. Dehghani, A. Hartov
4.45	A 3-D Reconstruction algorithm for EIT using planar electrode arrays
	Tzu-Jen Kao, D. Isaacson, J.C. Newell, and G. J. Saulnier
5.00	D-Bar Reconstructions of Cardiac Activity
	D. Isaacson , J. Mueller, J.Newell, and S. Siltanen
5.15	Direct reconstruction of tissue parameters from differential multifrequency EIT in vivo
	Michael Mayer, Patricia Brunner, Hermann Scharfetter
5.30 - 6.00	Discussion
6.30 - 7.15 p.m.	Meet at Jeremy Bentham pub (across Gower Street from the Lecture Theatre) (optional)
7.25 p.m.	Depart from the Jeremy Bentham pub for 5 minute walk to restaurant
7.30 p.m.	Dinner at Zizzi Restaurant, 33 Charlotte Street, London, W1T 1RR.
	(This is 5 mins walk from Soho and the West End, with excellent Jazz and Nightlife
	for anyone feeling energetic after the meal).
	Thursday June 23rd
8.30 – 10.30 a.m.	Instrumentation : General/brain function
	Chairman : Eung-Je Woo
8.30	ACT4: A High-Precision, Multi-frequency Electrical Impedance Tomograph
	Ning Liu, Gary J. Saulnier, Jonathan C. Newell
8.45	The User Interface of ACT4
	Hongjun Xia, J.C. Newell, and G. J. Saulnier
9.00	Breast Imaging with High Frequency EIT
	Ryan Halter, Alex Hartov, Nirmal Soni, Hamid Dehghani, Keith D. Paulsen
9.15	Multi-frequency EIT and TAS Hardware Development
	T. I. Oh, J. S. Lee, Eung Je Woo, O. Kwon and J. K. Seo
9.30	Novel current driver suitable for EIT applications
	N. Terzopoulos, K. Hayatleh, B. Hart, F. J. Lidgey and C Mcleod
9.45	Specification and calibration of a Multi-frequency EIT system for stroke
	Alistair McEwan, Rebecca Yerworth, Andrea Romsauerova, Richard Bayford, David Holder
10.00	A Novel and Portable Device for Real-Time, Noninvasive Stroke Assessment
	Gorgio Bonmassar, Sunao Iwaki, Leonardo Angelone, John W Belliveau, Judith D Schaecter, Michael H Lev
10.15 - 10.30	Discussion
10.30 - 11.00	Coffee in Old Refectory; authors by posters on display
11.00 – 1.00 p.m.	Clinical Applications I : Brain function
	Chairman : Jonathan Newell
11.00	Stroke type detection by Multi-Frequency Electrical Impedance Tomography MFEIT - a feasibility study
	L Horesh , O Gilad, A Romsauerova, A Tizzard, S R Arridge, and D S Holder
11.15	Characterization of an EIT system for acute stroke imaging in patients with brain tumours, arteriovenous malformations, and chronic stroke
	Andrea Romsauerova, Rebecca Yerworth, David Holder
11.30	EIT during epileptic seizures: not an easy task
	L Fabrizi, M Sparkes, J F Perez Juste-Abascal, L Horesh, D Holder
11.45	Detection of tissue ablation after cryosurgery
	Jon Edd and Boris Rubinsky
12.00	Fast functional imaging of the brain by Electrical Impedance Tomography
	Hugh McCann, Nicholas Polydorides, Juan Carlos Murrieta-Lee, Paul C.W. Beatty, and Chris J.D. Pomfrett
12.15	Could synchronized neuronal activity be imaged using low frequency electrical impedance tomography (LFEIT)?
	Ori Gilad, Lior Horsh Gershon Ahadzi, Richard Bayford and David Holder
12.30 – 1.00	Discussion
1.00 – 2.00 pm	Lunch Old Refectory; meet en route at 1.05 on main steps on quadrangle for group photo
2.00 – 4.00 p.m.	Clinical Applications II : Thorax
	Chairman : Huw Griffiths
2.00	EITviewer: towards a clinical visualization tool for thoracic EIT
	H.R. van Genderingen and J.P.A. Verbunt
2.15	Study of the optimum level of electrode placement for the evaluation of absolute lung impedance with Mk3.5 EIT system
	S Nebuya, M Noshiro, B H Brown, R H Smallwood, P Milnes
2.30	Dynamic Electrical Impedance Imaging of a Chest Phantom using the Kalman Filter
	Bong Seok Kim, Kyung Youn Kim, Tzu-Jen Kao, Jonathan C. Newell, and David Isaacson
2.45	Imaging pathologic pulmonary air and fluid accumulation by EIT
	G. Hahn, A. Just, T. Dudykevych, I. Frerichs and G. Hellige
3.00	Clinical applications of thoracic Electrical Impedance Tomography
	H. Luepschen, T. Meier, M. Grossherr, T. Leibecke, H. Gehring, S. Leonhardt