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19 March 2014A new resonance-frequency based electrical impedance spectroscopy and its application in biomedical engineering
Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) has shown promising results for differentiating between malignant and
benign tumors, which exhibit different dielectric properties. However, the performance of current EIS systems has been
inadequate and unacceptable in clinical practice. In the last several years, we have been developing and testing a new
EIS approach using resonance frequencies for detection and classification of suspicious tumors. From this experience,
we identified several limitations of current technologies and designed a new EIS system with a number of new
characteristics that include (1) an increased A/D (analog-to-digital) sampling frequency, 24 bits, and a frequency
resolution of 100 Hz, to increase detection sensitivity (2) automated calibration to monitor and correct variations in
electronic components within the system, (3) temperature sensing and compensation algorithms to minimize impact of
environmental change during testing, and (4) multiple inductor-switching to select optimum resonance frequencies. We
performed a theoretical simulation to analyze the impact of adding these new functions for improving performance of the
system. This system was also tested using phantoms filled with variety of liquids. The theoretical and experimental test
results are consistent with each other. The experimental results demonstrated that this new EIS device possesses the
improved sensitivity and/or signal detection resolution for detecting small impedance or capacitance variations. This
provides the potential of applying this new EIS technology to different cancer detection and diagnosis tasks in the future.
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Sreeram Dhurjaty, Yuchen Qiu, Maxine Tan, Bin Zheng, "A new resonance-frequency based electrical impedance spectroscopy and its application in biomedical engineering," Proc. SPIE 9033, Medical Imaging 2014: Physics of Medical Imaging, 90334G (19 March 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2042392