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Electrical impedance tomography (EIT):
assessment of lung physiology and clinical applications
Dr. Thomas Riedel
Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care, University Children’s Hospital,
Inselspital, 3010 Bern
Abstract
In this presentation examples of EIT as a research tool in lung
physiology will be presented. Problems with data acquisition and
processing and their possible impact on results will be highlighted and
some - present and future - clinical applications will be discussed.
Biography
Thomas Riedel finished medical school in Bern in 1993. After his
paediatric training in St. Gallen and Luzern he specialised in
paediatric intensive care medicine in St. Gallen, Bern and Sydney,
Australia. Since 2005 he works as a senior consultant in the Paediatric
and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the University Children’s Hospital
in Bern. He is involved in different research projects investigating
lung physiology and the impact of mechanical ventilation on lung
mechanics. The main topics of his research activities involve lung
recruitment during mechanical ventilation, impact of variable
ventilation (breath-by-breath variation of tidal volumes) on lung
mechanics and development of electrical impedance tomography analysis
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