A method for the non-invasive determination of physical data from a living
organism using an EIT measuring device for measuring a measure of
blood flow through at least one organ within the
organism is described, comprising the following method steps: a) Creating an EIT
image series comprising a multitude of EIT images generated sequentially by means of the EIT measuring device attached to an
extracorporeal area of the
organism, each consisting of image pixels, each of which is assigned a
signal value corresponding to an
electrical impedance, b) Selecting organ-specific EIT image sections from all EIT images that are identical in position, c) Determining a regional impedance curve based on all selected EIT image sections, d) Determining times at which the regional impedance curve has a local minimum, e) Selecting those EIT images from all generated EIT images that can each be assigned to one of the
specific time points, f) Determine a
reference image for each of the selected EIT images, g) Subtracting the
reference image determined for each selected EIT image from it to obtain a difference image, or instead of the procedure steps e) to g), the following procedure steps e') to g'). e') Selecting those selected EIT image sections from all selected EIT image sections that can each be assigned to one of the specified time points, f') Determine a
reference image for each of the selected EIT image sections, g') Subtracting the reference image determined for a selected EIT image section from it to obtain a difference image in each case, h) Selecting at least one difference image to obtain an EIT result image or averaging at least two difference images to obtain an EIT result image and i) Correlating the
signal value assigned to each pixel of the result image with a measure of
blood flow through at least one organ within the organism.