D-bar method for electrical impedance tomography with discontinuous conductivities

SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 893-913

  Knudsen, Kim ^a   Lassas, Matti ^b   Mueller, Jennifer L ^c   Siltanen, Samuli ^d  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

^d TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Electrical impedance tomography; Exponentially growing solution; Faddeev's Green's function; Inverse conductivity problem

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; EXPONENTIALLY GROWING SOLUTIONS; FADDEEV'S GREEN'S FUNCTION; INVERSE CONDUCTIVITY PROBLEM;

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LINEARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; STABILIZATION; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

EID: 34547282631     PISSN: 00361399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/060656930     Document Type: Article

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