Absolute conductivity reconstruction in magnetic induction tomography using a nonlinear method

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1521-1530

  Soleimani, Manuchehr ^a   Lionheart, William R B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conductivity measurement; Eddy currents; Electromagnetic tomography; Inverse problems

Indexed keywords

EDDY CURRENTS; ELECTRIC COILS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; TOMOGRAPHY;

CONDUCTIVITY MEASUREMENT; ELECTROMAGNETIC TOMOGRAPHY; JACOBIAN MATRIX; MAGNETIC INDUCTION TOMOGRAPHY (MIT);

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MAGNETISM; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MAGNETICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33845590524     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2006.884196     Document Type: Article

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