Researcher Fabian Braun, an R&D engineer at CSEM, was presented with the award for the best young investigator’s paper in the category Applications at the 20th International Conference on Biomedical Applications of Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT 2019), held in London, UK.
The research was performed in collaboration with two Canadian universities (Université de Sherbrooke and Carleton University) and addresses a clinical demand for the non-invasive and continuous measurement of pulmonary artery pressure (PAP) by means of electrical impedance tomography (EIT), a low-cost and radiation-free medical imaging modality.
The results presented at the conference pave the way for non-invasive and continuous monitoring of pulmonary artery pressure (PAP). The novel approach was developed at CSEM by Martin Proença during his PhD studies and tested with healthy volunteers. In the work presented, the approach was further validated successfully against a catheter—the gold-standard reference for PAP—and under several pathological conditions.
Braun F, Proença M, Sage M, Praud J-P, Lemay M, Adler A, Fortin-Pellerin E. EIT measurement of pulmonary artery pressure in neonatal lambs. EIT 2019. London, UK: Zenodo; 2019. p. 33. DOI:10.5281/zenodo.2691704.
Proença M, Braun F, Solà J, Adler A, Lemay M, Thiran J-P, Rimoldi SF. Non-invasive monitoring of pulmonary artery pressure from timing information by EIT: experimental evaluation during induced hypoxia. Physiological Measurement. 2016;37: 713–726. DOI:10.1088/0967-3334/37/6/713.
