Patent ID: 6768921
Filing Date: 2004-07-27
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
A method of diagnosing the possibility of a disease state in one of first and second substantially similar parts of a living organism, the method comprising:a) obtaining a plurality of impedance measurements across predetermined portions of each of the parts to produce first and second sets of impedance measurements, the first set for the first part and the second set for the second part, and wherein each measurement of the first set has a corresponding measurement in the second set when taken across corresponding portions of each of the parts; b) identifying the set with a lower mean impedance value; c) arranging each of the first and second sets in respective mathematical matrices; d) creating an absolute difference matrix by subtracting each measurement of the set with the lower mean impedance value from the corresponding measurement of the other set; and e) analyzing the absolute difference matrix to diagnose the possibility of a disease state.