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Electrical Bioimpedance cerebral monitoring. Preliminary results from measurements on stroke patients
KTH, School of Technology and Health (STH), Medical sensors, signals and systems (MSSS).ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0928-8501
KTH, School of Technology and Health (STH), Medical sensors, signals and systems (MSSS).ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6995-967X
KTH, School of Technology and Health (STH), Medical sensors, signals and systems (MSSS).ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4853-7731
2012 (English)In: Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2012 Annual International Conference of the IEEE, IEEE , 2012, p. 126-129Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Electrical Bioimpedance Spectroscopy (EBIS) is currently used in different tissue characterization applications. In this work we aim to use EBIS to study changes in electrical properties of the cerebral tissues after an incident of hemorrhage/ischemic stroke. To do so a case-control study was conducted using six controls and three stroke cases. The preliminary results of this study show that by using Cole-based analysis on EBIS measurements and analyzing the Cole parameters R0 and R∞, it is possible to detect changes on electrical properties of cerebral tissue after stroke. 

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
IEEE , 2012. p. 126-129
Series
IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Conference Proceedings, ISSN 1557-170X
Keywords [en]
Case-control study, Cerebral monitoring, Cerebral tissues, Electrical bio-impedance, Stroke patients, Tissue characterization
National Category
Cardiac and Cardiovascular Systems Medical Engineering
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-103090DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2012.6345887ISI: 000313296500032PubMedID: 23365848Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84881053764ISBN: 978-142444119-8 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-103090DiVA, id: diva2:558574
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34th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS 2012; San Diego, CA; 28 August 2012 through 1 September 2012
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QC 20121213

Available from: 2012-10-04 Created: 2012-10-04 Last updated: 2024-03-18Bibliographically approved
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1. Electrical Bioimpedance Cerebral Monitoring: From Hypothesis and Simulation to First Experimental Evidence in Stroke Patients
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Electrical Bioimpedance Cerebral Monitoring: From Hypothesis and Simulation to First Experimental Evidence in Stroke Patients
2015 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

Stroke is amongthe leading causes of death worldwide and requires immediate care to prevent death or permanent disability. Unfortunately, the current stateof stroke diagnosis is limited to fixed neuroimaging facilities that do not allow rapid stroke diagnosis. Hence, a portable stroke-diagnosis device could assist in the pre-hospital triage of patients. Moreover, such a portable device could also be useful for bedside stroke monitoring of patients in the Neuro Intensive Care Unit (Neuro-ICU) to avoid unnecessary neuroimaging. Recent animal studies and numerical simulations have supported the idea of implementing Electrical Bioimpedance (EBI) in a portable device, allowing non-invasive assessment as a useful tool for the pre-hospital triage of stroke and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) patients. Unfortunately, these studies have not reported any results from human subjects in the acute phase of the stroke. The numerical simulations are also based on simple models that sometimes lack necessary details.

Finite Element Method (FEM) simulations on a realistic numerical head model as well as experimental Bioimpedance Spectroscopy (BIS) measurements from human subjectsin the acute, subacute and chronic phasesof stroke were used to answer the following research questions: (i) Does stroke modify the electrical properties of brain tissue in a way that is detectable via EBI? (ii) Would it be possible to detect stroke via EBI as early as in the acute and sub-acute phase?(iii) Is EBI sensitive enough to monitor changes caused by stroke pathogenesis?

Using FEM to simulate electrical current injection on the head and study the resulting distribution of electrical potential on the scalp, it was shown that Intra-Cranial Hemorrhage (ICH) affects the quasi-symmetric scalp potential distribution,creating larger left-right potential asymmetry when compared to the healthy head model. Proof-of-concept FEM simulations were also tested in a small cohort of 6ICH patients and 10 healthy controls, showing that the left-right potential difference in the patients is significantly (p<0.05) larger than in the controls. Using bioimpedance measurements in the acute,  subacute and chronic phasesof stroke and examining simple features, it was also shown that the head EBI measurements of patients suffering stroke are different from controls, enabling the discrimination of healthy controls and stroke patients at any stage of the stroke. The absolute change in test-retest resistance measurements of the control group (~5.33%) was also found to be significantly (p<0.05) smaller than the EBI measurements of patients obtained 24 hours and 72 hours after stroke onset (20.44%). These results suggested that scalp EBI is sensitive to stroke pathogenesis changesand thususeful for bedside monitoring in the Neuro-ICU. These results suggested that EBI is a potentially useful tool for stroke diagnosis and monitoring.

Finally, the initial observations based on a small number of patients, addressing the proposed future work of this thesis, suggested that the average head resistance amplitude of hemorrhagic stroke patients is smaller than in healthy controls, while ischemic stroke patients show a larger resistance amplitude than the controls. Scalp potential asymmetry analysis of healthy, hemorrhagic and ischemic stroke subjects also suggests that these three groups can be separated. However, these results are based on a small number of patients and need to be validated using a larger cohort. Initial observations also showed that the resistance of the EBI measurements of controls is robust between test and retest measurements, showing no significant difference (less than 2% and p>0.05). Subject position during EBI recording (supine or sitting) did not seem to affect the resistance of the EBI measurements (p>0.05). However, age, sex and head size showed significant effects on the resistance measurements. These initial observations are encouraging for further research on EBI for cerebral monitoring and stroke diagnosis. However, at this stage, considering the uncertainties in stroke type differentiation, EBI cannot replace CT but has the potential to be used as a consultation tool.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 2015. p. x, 72
Series
TRITA-STH ; 2015:8
Keywords
Electrical Biompedance Spectroscopy, Stroke, Hemorrhage, Ischemia, FEM, HFSS, Electrical Potentials
National Category
Medical Engineering
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-176634 (URN)978-91-7595-769-2 (ISBN)
Public defence
2015-12-01, Sal 3-221, Alfred Nobels Allé 10 141 52, Huddinge, 13:15 (English)
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QC 20151109

Available from: 2015-11-09 Created: 2015-11-09 Last updated: 2022-06-23Bibliographically approved

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