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Inverse diffusion problems with redundant internal information

Analysis of PDEs 2012-04-24 v2

Abstract

This paper concerns the reconstruction of a scalar diffusion coefficient σ(x)\sigma(x) from redundant functionals of the form Hi(x)=σ2α(x)ui2(x)H_i(x)=\sigma^{2\alpha}(x)|\nabla u_i|^2(x) where α\Rm\alpha\in\Rm and uiu_i is a solution of the elliptic problem σui=0\nabla\cdot \sigma \nabla u_i=0 for 1iI1\leq i\leq I. The case α=12\alpha=\frac12 is used to model measurements obtained from modulating a domain of interest by ultrasound and finds applications in ultrasound modulated electrical impedance tomography (UMEIT) as well as ultrasound modulated optical tomography (UMOT). The case α=1\alpha=1 finds applications in Magnetic Resonance Electrical Impedance Tomography (MREIT). We present two explicit reconstruction procedures of σ\sigma for appropriate choices of II and of traces of uiu_i at the boundary of a domain of interest. The first procedure involves the solution of an over-determined system of ordinary differential equations and generalizes to the multi-dimensional case and to (almost) arbitrary values of α\alpha the results obtained in two and three dimensions in \cite{CFGK} and \cite{BBMT}, respectively, in the case α=12\alpha=\frac12. The second procedure consists of solving a system of linear elliptic equations, which we can prove admits a unique solution in specific situations.

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@article{arxiv.1106.4277,
  title  = {Inverse diffusion problems with redundant internal information},
  author = {Francois Monard and Guillaume Bal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1106.4277},
  year   = {2012}
}

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25 pages

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