Commercial Systems
Although medical EIT systems are not widely used several medical equipment manufactures now supply commercial versions of systems developed by university research groups. The first such system is produced by Maltron International who distribute a Sheffield Mark 3.5 system. Other manufactures include Dräger Medical, CareFusion, a respiratory monitoring company who distribute Goe MF II system that was developed at the University of Göttingen. Impedance Medical Technologies who manufacture systems based on designs by the Research Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics of the Russian Academy of Science in Moscow, aimed especially at breast cancer detection. Such systems typically comply with medical safety legislation and are being used by research groups in hospitals, notably in intensive care for monitoring ventilation. An EIT device for lung function monitoring that is designed for everyday clinical use in the critical care environment has been made available by Dräger Medical in 2011
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