A robotic respiration phantom with patient data synchronization for medical tomography

In order to benchmark on-line algorithms for electrical tomography we have designed a dynamic soft robotic phantom system. The robotic phantom will be synchronized with real-time measurements of a patient and it will support on-line tomographic algorithms during dynamic conditions. The system would allow to embody the kinematics in the tomographic inversion, for instance when using model predictive control to trigger the data acquisition at the beginning and at the end of the breathing process. (paper)