An iterative Newton-Raphson method to solve the inverse admittivity problem

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 899-908

  Edic, Peter M ^a   Isaacson, David ^a   Saulnier, Gary J ^a   Jain, Hemant ^a   Newell, Jonathan C ^a  

^a GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Conductivity; Impedance imaging; Iterative reconstruction methods; Least squares reconstruction methods; Permittivity

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PERMITTIVITY; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; INVERSE ADMITTIVITY PROBLEM; NEWTON-RAPHSON METHOD;

BIOELECTRIC PHENOMENA;

ARTICLE; CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; IMPEDANCE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; THORAX; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032126622     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.686798     Document Type: Article

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