Swisstom announces release of first product

The medieval spa-town of Heiligenstadt, Germany will host this year´s XIV. Conference on Electrical Impedance Tomography. Swisstom AG will be present with its own booth and showcase the world’s first EIT-Pioneer Set – a plug-and-play hardware and software package that can be acquired at net cost price. Image reconstruction and processing of raw data obtained with this set can be carried out without any limitations by the software tools provided through EIDORS.

Unlike traditional medical imaging methods (e.g., computed-tomography or CT), Swisstom´s dynamic images are being reconstructed right at the bedside from raw data measured by a technology called Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT): Weak alternating currents will be applied and travel along the paths of least resistance through a body, creating electric potentials at the body surface.

Swisstom supports and helps the global multidisciplinary network of EIT researchers grow by sponsoring both this conference and the associated EIDORS workshop in addition to offering the EIT-Pioneer Set which includes the free and publicly available proprietary STEM software. This multidisciplinary network consists of experts in clinical, physiological and technical EIT as well as specialists in EIT related mathematics and algorithms.

Our research partners have committed themselves to provide software components and tools that are fully compatible with the EIT-Pioneer Set while Swisstom as a company committed itself to deliver all current and future data in the Open EIT Data Format (oEIT).