Normalization of a spatially variant image reconstruction problem in electrical impedance tomography using system blurring properties

Physiological Measurement

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 275-289

  Oh, Sungho ^a   Tang, Te ^a   Tucker, A S ^a   Sadleir, R J ^a  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrical impedance tomography; Full array; Hemiarray; Pixel wise scaling; Point spread function; Quantity index; Spatially variant image Reconstruction; Weighted minimum norm method; Weighted pseudoinversion

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRODES; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PIXELS; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION; TOPOLOGY;

FULL ARRAY; HEMIARRAY; IMAGES RECONSTRUCTION; MINIMUM-NORM METHODS; PIXEL-WISE SCALING; POINT-SPREAD FUNCTION; PSEUDO-INVERSION; QUANTITY INDEX; SCALINGS; SPATIALLY VARIANT IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; WEIGHTED MINIMUM NORM METHOD; WEIGHTED PSEUDOINVERSION;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONDUCTANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 63649113281     PISSN: 09673334     EISSN: 13616579     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0967-3334/30/3/004     Document Type: Article

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