Bioimpedance is the passive electrical property of biological tissues to impede an external electric current. Generally, the bioimpedance method uses surface electrodes to inject safe currents into human body and simultaneously measure the resulting voltages. Subsequently, application-specific procedures are conducted to analyze the derived impedance values in the target regions. Since the bioimpedance is highly associated with human body composition, physiological or pathological activities, this technique has been widely utilized in the medical field at present, including the bioimpedance analysis (BIA) for assessment of body nutrition, the impedance cardiogram (ICG) for estimation of cardiac output, and the electrical impedance tomography (EIT) for the monitoring of regional lung ventilation and perfusion, the electrical impedance myography (EIM) for evaluation of the muscle status, etc. Also, bioimpedance technique was used to assess human functional status in special environments, such as aviation and space medicine. Furthermore, in the past decades, the number of relevant publications on PubMed is over 7000. Therefore, bioimpedance is quite an active field of modern medical engineering.
Physiological or medical findings often depend on specific media and techniques. For example, computed tomography and digital radiography employ X-rays to obtain anatomical structures. Clinical echography uses ultrasound to reflect anatomical or functional activities. Pulse oximeter analyzes near-infrared rays to obtain blood oxygen concentration. This research topic mainly focuses on bioimpedance as a new media and technique. Based on several bioimpedance measurement techniques, this research topic is intended to expand our understanding of the connections between physiology and bioimpedance and the physiology underpinning bioimpedance features in healthy or disease status, as well as the new physiological or medical application with novel developing bioimpedance techniques in special environments.
We welcome basic, translational, clinical and applied research that improves the development and use of bioimpedance techniques to understand its function in health and disease. Potential areas of interest may include, but are not limited to:
- Evaluating body composition and malnutrition using bioimpedance analysis or spectroscopy
- Analyzing cardiac output from different conditions using impedance cardiography
- Physiological or medical applications of electrical impedance tomography
- Electrical impedance myography for assessing the extent of muscle fatigue or damage
- New bioimpedance technique for physiology or medicine.
- Assessing human functional status in special environments including aerospace medicine.
We encourage submissions of different article types to this collection, especially systematic reviews, narrative reviews, and original research papers relevant to any bioimpedance research in physiology or medicine.
Bioimpedance is the passive electrical property of biological tissues to impede an external electric current. Generally, the bioimpedance method uses surface electrodes to inject safe currents into human body and simultaneously measure the resulting voltages. Subsequently, application-specific procedures are conducted to analyze the derived impedance values in the target regions. Since the bioimpedance is highly associated with human body composition, physiological or pathological activities, this technique has been widely utilized in the medical field at present, including the bioimpedance analysis (BIA) for assessment of body nutrition, the impedance cardiogram (ICG) for estimation of cardiac output, and the electrical impedance tomography (EIT) for the monitoring of regional lung ventilation and perfusion, the electrical impedance myography (EIM) for evaluation of the muscle status, etc. Also, bioimpedance technique was used to assess human functional status in special environments, such as aviation and space medicine. Furthermore, in the past decades, the number of relevant publications on PubMed is over 7000. Therefore, bioimpedance is quite an active field of modern medical engineering.
Physiological or medical findings often depend on specific media and techniques. For example, computed tomography and digital radiography employ X-rays to obtain anatomical structures. Clinical echography uses ultrasound to reflect anatomical or functional activities. Pulse oximeter analyzes near-infrared rays to obtain blood oxygen concentration. This research topic mainly focuses on bioimpedance as a new media and technique. Based on several bioimpedance measurement techniques, this research topic is intended to expand our understanding of the connections between physiology and bioimpedance and the physiology underpinning bioimpedance features in healthy or disease status, as well as the new physiological or medical application with novel developing bioimpedance techniques in special environments.
We welcome basic, translational, clinical and applied research that improves the development and use of bioimpedance techniques to understand its function in health and disease. Potential areas of interest may include, but are not limited to:
- Evaluating body composition and malnutrition using bioimpedance analysis or spectroscopy
- Analyzing cardiac output from different conditions using impedance cardiography
- Physiological or medical applications of electrical impedance tomography
- Electrical impedance myography for assessing the extent of muscle fatigue or damage
- New bioimpedance technique for physiology or medicine.
- Assessing human functional status in special environments including aerospace medicine.
We encourage submissions of different article types to this collection, especially systematic reviews, narrative reviews, and original research papers relevant to any bioimpedance research in physiology or medicine.