Document Type
Article
Language
eng
Publication Date
6-2017
Publisher
American Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Source Publication
Inverse Problems and Imaging
Source ISSN
1930-8337
Abstract
Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) is a non-invasive imaging modality that uses surface electrical measurements to determine the internal conductivity of a body. The mathematical formulation of the EIT problem is a nonlinear and severely ill-posed inverse problem for which direct D-bar methods have proved useful in providing noise-robust conductivity reconstructions. Recent advances in D-bar methods allow for conductivity reconstructions using EIT measurement data from only part of the domain (e.g., a patient lying on their back could be imaged using only data gathered on the accessible part of the body). However, D-bar reconstructions suffer from a loss of sharp edges due to a nonlinear low-pass filtering of the measured data, and this problem becomes especially marked in the case of partial boundary data. Including a priori data directly into the D-bar solution method greatly enhances the spatial resolution, allowing for detection of underlying pathologies or defects, even with no assumption of their presence in the prior. This work combines partial data D-bar with a priori data, allowing for noise-robust conductivity reconstructions with greatly improved spatial resolution. The method is demonstrated to be effective on noisy simulated EIT measurement data simulating both medical and industrial imaging scenarios.
Recommended Citation
Alsaker, Melody; Hamilton, Sarah J.; and Hauptmann, Andreas, "A Direct D-Bar Method for Partial Boundary Data Electrical Impedance Tomography With a Priori Information" (2017). Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science Faculty Research and Publications. 616.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/mscs_fac/616
Comments
Accepted version. Inverse Problems & Imaging, Vol. 11, No. 3 (June 2017) : 427-454. DOI. © 2017 American Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Used with permission.