Effect of domain shape modeling and measurement errors on the 2-D D-bar method for EIT

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1576-1584

  Murphy, Ethan K ^a   Mueller, Jennifer L ^b  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

D bar method; Direct reconstruction algorithm; Electrical impedance tomography

Indexed keywords

COMPLETE ELECTRODE MODEL; CURRENT PATTERNS; D-BAR METHOD; DIRECT RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHM; DOMAIN MODELING; DOMAIN SHAPE; ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRODE PLACEMENT; FORWARD PROBLEM; INPUT CURRENT; INVERSE CONDUCTIVITY PROBLEM; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; SCATTERING TRANSFORMS;

DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY;

MEASUREMENT ERRORS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMPEDANCE; METHODOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 70349884116     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2009.2021611     Document Type: Article

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