With a prize of 2,000 euros and a second place, the DGBMT and the Klee Family Foundation honor the doctoral thesis of Dr.-Ing. Tobias Menden from RWTH Aachen University, who currently works for Pulsar Photonics in Herzogenrath. His research addressed the question of how pneumonia, atelectasis, or pulmonary edema can be diagnosed at an early stage in order to prevent lung failure or treat it as quickly as possible. The time-differential electrical impedance tomography (EIT) methods currently in use provide very little information in this regard. Consequently, Menden developed an approach for utilizing multifrequency EIT for lung monitoring in routine clinical practice, as it is capable of visualizing spectral tissue properties and thus enables a more differentiated assessment of pulmonary pathologies.

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