Electrical impedance tomography in anisotropic media with known eigenvectors

Inverse Problems

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Abascal, Juan Felipe P J ^a,b   Lionheart, William R B ^c   Arridge, Simon R ^b   Schweiger, Martin ^b   Atkinson, David ^b   Holder, David S ^b  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO GREGORIO MARAÑÓN   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC CONDUCTIVITY; BOUNDARY DATA; BOUNDARY MEASUREMENTS; CONDUCTIVITY DISTRIBUTIONS; CONDUCTIVITY TENSORS; DIFFEOMORPHISMS; EIGEN-VALUE; EIGENVALUES; EIGENVECTORS; ELECTRICAL CURRENT; ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN TISSUES; IMAGING METHOD; JACOBIANS; LAYERED STRUCTURES; MEASURING BOUNDARIES; NON-INVASIVE; NONUNIQUENESS; NUMERICAL STUDIES; PIECEWISE LINEAR; SIMULATED DISTRIBUTION; SINUSOIDAL FUNCTIONS; THEORETICAL RESULT; THEORETICAL STUDY; VOLUMETRIC IMAGES; WHITE MATTER;

ANISOTROPIC MEDIA; ANISOTROPY; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES; RECOVERY; TENSORS; TISSUE;

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS;

EID: 79957943211     PISSN: 02665611     EISSN: 13616420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0266-5611/27/6/065004     Document Type: Article

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