eng Oriental Scientific Publishing Company Biosciences Biotechnology Research Asia 0973-1245 2016-06-11 11 Spl.Edn.2 85 91 10.13005/bbra/1444 11928 article Grayr Karenovich Aleksanyan 1 Nikolay Ivanovich Gorbatenko 1 Alexander Dmitrievich Tarasov 1 Platov South-Russian State Polytechnic University (NPI), 132, Prosvescheniya ul., Novocherkassk, 346428, Russian Federation, Russian. This article is dedicated to the current state of electrical impedance tomography in medicine. The basic directions of research in this area have been detected. Possible areas of application in clinical conditions have been considered. The main manufacturers of electrical impedance equipment in Russia and abroad have been presented. A list of main dissertations in the Russian Federation on the subject of electrical impedance tomography since 2009 has been presented. Main scientific publications have been presented that publish results of leading groups of researchers. Based on the review and analysis of the subject area, a new approach to the theory of electrical impedance tomography has been proposed. https://www.biotech-asia.org/vol11_nospl_edn2/modern-trends-in-development-of-electrical-impedance-tomography-in-medicine/ Electrical impedance tomography; mathematical model; electrical conductivity; spatial distribution; image reconstruction; reconstruction algorithms; two-dimensional and three-dimensional visualization; internal organs; electrode system