Patent ID: 8103337

Claim:
A method for diagnosing a possibility of disease in a body part, the method comprising: representing the body part with a grid having a plurality of finite elements, the grid contained within a volume; dividing the volume into a plurality of voxels; obtaining a set of weights associated with a particular one of the voxels using a model of the body part, each weight in the set of weights obtained by computing a baseline quantity in the particular one of the voxels for a corresponding current injection in a plurality of current injections into the body part using an electrode array; computing a diagnostic at the particular one of the voxels, the diagnostic computed as an average of a function weighted over the plurality of current injections using the set of weights, and the function used to compute the diagnostic defined in relation to a measured electrical property of the body part obtained with the electrode array; and utilizing the diagnostic to diagnose the possibility of disease in the body part.