A Quadruple-Sweep Bioimpedance Sensing Method for Arterial Stenosis Detection

Current carotid atherosclerosis diagnostic protocols do not feature techniques that would allow for early or frequent medical examinations, leaving a significant number of asymptomatic carotid stenosis cases undetected and often leading to strokes. The key challenge is that current diagnostics are h...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE access 2024, Vol.12, p.18594-18605
Hauptverfasser: Rahman, Enayetur, Liatsis, Panos, Hashim, Zaheer Q., Kyriacou, Panayiotis A., Triantis, Iasonas F.
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Zusammenfassung:Current carotid atherosclerosis diagnostic protocols do not feature techniques that would allow for early or frequent medical examinations, leaving a significant number of asymptomatic carotid stenosis cases undetected and often leading to strokes. The key challenge is that current diagnostics are highly operator-dependent. In this work we used idealised biological models to demonstrate a new rapid, potentially inexpensive and operator-independent diagnostic method, aimed at detecting whether a stenosis exists, rather than seeking to be accurately quantifying or localising it. An array of electrodes was used to obtain sequential bioimpedance values over the skin, through a novel scanning technique, covering an area over the artery of interest. FEM simulations, verified through in-vitro experiments on gelatine phantoms, were used to validate the method. The final results, obtained through image processing algorithms, were in the form of planar bio-impedance maps and were successful both in identifying arterial features and detecting the presence of stenoses of different sizes, and the overall accuracy of detecting stenoses in a vessel without bifurcation is 97.78% and with bifurcation is 91.11%. The results could also be used to indicate the artery's relative orientation to the sensor, eliminating the need for manual alignment by a specialist operator. Therefore, this method shows promise for routine medical examination, either in primary care, or even at home, to indicate whether a patient would require further, more detailed examinations at a specialist clinic.
ISSN:2169-3536
2169-3536
DOI:10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3356564