Recovering boundary shape and conductivity in electrical impedance tomography

Ville Kolehmainen; Matti Lassas; Petri Ola; Samuli Siltanen

doi:10.3934/ipi.2013.7.217

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2013, Volume 7, Issue 1: 217-242. Doi: 10.3934/ipi.2013.7.217

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Recovering boundary shape and conductivity in electrical impedance tomography

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University of Eastern Finland, Department of Applied Physics, P.O.Box 1627, 70211 Kuopio
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University of Helsinki, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, P.O.Box 68, 00014 University of Helsinki
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Department of Mathematics and Statistics, P.O. Box 68, 00014 University of Helsinki

Received: October 31, 2011

Revised: April 30, 2012

Published: January 2013

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Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) aims to reconstruct the electric conductivity inside a physical body from current-to-voltage measurements at the boundary of the body. In practical EIT one often lacks exact knowledge of the domain boundary, and inaccurate modeling of the boundary causes artifacts in the reconstructions. A novel method is presented for recovering the boundary shape and an isotropic conductivity from EIT data. The first step is to determine the minimally anisotropic conductivity in a model domain reproducing the measured EIT data. Second, a Beltrami equation is solved, providing shape-deforming reconstruction. The algorithm is applied to simulated noisy data from a realistic electrode model, demonstrating that approximate recovery of the boundary shape and conductivity is feasible.

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Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35R30, 65N21; Secondary: 65J20.

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