Iterative Reconstruction Methods Using Regularization and Optimal Current Patterns in Electrical Impedance Tomography

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1991, Pages 621-628

  Hua, Ping ^a   Woo, Eung Je ^b   Webster, John G ^c   Tompkins, Willis J ^c  

^a Applied Research Group Siemens Gammasonics Inc ^*  (United States)

^b Konkuk University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; IMAGE PROCESSING - RECONSTRUCTION; INFORMATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES - FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; OPTIMIZATION;

ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; INFORMATION MATRIX; ITERATIVE IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NEWTON-RAPHSON METHOD; OPTIMAL CURRENT PATTERNS; REGULARIZATION METHOD;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0026407127     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.108598     Document Type: Article

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