Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 30, Issue 2 , Pages 144-153 , March 2008

Application of conformal transformation to elliptic geometry for electric impedance tomography

Received 13 April 2006 ,Revised 19 March 2007 ,Accepted 22 March 2007.

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doi: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2007.03.007

Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 30, Issue 2 , Pages 144-153 , March 2008

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