Usable Electrical Impedance Tomography for Children in the ICU

摘要/项目摘要 本项目的目的是开发一种现代电阻抗断层成像的设计 (EIT)监护重症监护室中的儿童的设备。我们的方法来建立这个新的 技术是遵循严格的构思，原型和测试过程，因为我们的目标是 将一种新的设计推进临床。我们的目标是（1）生成初始设计， 先进的轻质EIT带和（2）评估小型化，更容易使用的技术可行性 EIT核心器件。该项目是工程师和临床医生之间的合作， 生成可以在日常使用中实施的可用形式的EIT。如果成功，这些 这些发明将用于监测美国每年5，000，000名患者中的一半， 被送进重症监护室，并诊断出数亿人， 患有慢性阻塞性肺病、睡眠呼吸暂停和许多其他呼吸道疾病， 医院新生儿对通气的变化特别敏感， 其他工具，可以提供评估的区域venilation在新生儿重症监护室。

Abstract / Project Summary The aim of this project is to develop a design for a modern Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) device to monitor children in the Intensive Care Unit. Our approach to building this new technology is to follow a rigorous ideation, prototyping and testing process as we aim to advance a novel design into the clinic. Our aims are to (1) generate initial designs for an advanced lightweight EIT belt and (2) assess technical feasibility of a miniaturized, easier to use EIT core device. The project is a collaboration between engineers and clinicians in order to generate a usable form of EIT that can be implemented in daily use. If successful, these inventions will be used to monitor half of the 5,000,000 patients per year in the US that are admitted to the Intensive Care Unit, and to diagnose many hundreds of millions more who have trouble with COPD, sleep apnea and a host of other respiratory conditions at home and in the hospital. Neonates are particularly sensitive to changes in ventilation and there simply are no other tools that can deliver assessment of regional venilation in the NICU.