Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is a relatively new imaging method that has evolved over the past 20 years. It has the potential to be of great value in clinical diagnosis; however, EIT is a technically difficult problem to solve in terms of developing hardware for data capture and the algorithms to reconstruct the images. This review looks at the development of EIT and how it has evolved. It focuses on its clinical applications, examining hardware for the collection of data and reconstruction algorithms to generate images. Finally, this review looks at future developments that are evolving from EIT. These new variations use mixed modalities that may produce interesting new clinical imaging tools.

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生物阻抗层析成像（电阻抗层析成像）。

电阻抗断层扫描（EIT）是在过去20年中发展起来的一种相对较新的成像方法。它具有潜在的临床诊断价值。然而，就开发用于数据捕获的硬件和重建图像的算法而言，EIT是一个技术难题。这篇评论着眼于EIT的发展以及它是如何发展的。它专注于其临床应用，检查用于收集数据的硬件和重建算法以生成图像。最后，这篇综述着眼于EIT的未来发展。这些新变体使用了混合模式，可能会产生有趣的新临床影像工具。