Performance Evaluation of Complex Electrical Bio-impedance from V/I Four-electrode Measurements

The passive electrical properties of a tissue depends on the intrinsic constituents and its structure, therefore by measuring the complex electrical impedance of the tissue it might be possible to obtain indicators of the tissue state or physiological activity [1]. Complete bio-impedance information relative to physiology and pathology of a human body and functional states of the body tissue or organs can be extracted by using a technique containing a fourelectrode measurement setup. This work presents the estimation measurement setup based on the four-electrode technique. First, the complex impedance is estimated by three different estimation techniques: Fourier, Sine Correlation and Digital De-convolution and then estimation errors for the magnitude, phase, reactance and resistance are calculated and analyzed for different levels of disturbances in the observations. The absolute values of relative errors are plotted and the graphical performance of each technique is compared.

Authors:

• Towfeeq Fairooz
• Salim Istyaq

Keywords:

• Electrical Impedance
• Fast Fourier Transform
• Additive White Gaussian Noise
• Total Least Square
• Digital De-Convolution
• Sine-Correlation.

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