Abstract
Due to insufficiencies of the currently available imaging modalities in breast cancer diagnosis the development of improved technical systems has been a main field of activities in the medical engineering community for years, including thermography, laser mammography and impedance based technologies. Up to now none of these technologies reached the break-through into routine application due to several reasons. Also electrical impedance scanning being free of side effects, non invasive, cheap, and flexible to handle, is a promising diagnostic tool especially in breast cancer detection. This review aims to describe the physical background, clinical application, already useful applications, limitations and future developments.
Keywords: Electrical Impedance Tomography, Electrical Impedance Mapping, TS 2000 (TM) System, VX2-tumour model, malignancy, breast cancers, Skin Artifacts, Hormones, Lymph Nodes, Biopsy-
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