2018 Volume Annual56 Issue Abstract Pages S83
Lymphedema is a disease caused by stagnation of albumin in the interstitial fluid especially after breast cancer surgery. Early detection of lymphedema is important but an effective device for this has not been developed. Therefore, our final goal is to detect albumin stagnation, which is the cause of lymphedema, by using an EIT method that determines the conductivity distribution of the measurement site. As a preliminary step, two experiments were carried out. The biological phantom mimicking an early phase of lymphedema and a biological tissue which has normal edema state were each measured, and the capacity of EIT as a measurement device was evaluated. As a result, the albumin solution injected locally in the biological phantom could be detected. In the biological tissue, a change was observed between the normal state and the edema simulated state. Based on this result, the effectiveness of the developed device was confirmed
