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The inverse problem of electrical impedance tomography is severely ill-posed, meaning that, only limited information about the conductivity can in practice be recovered from boundary measurements of electric current and voltage. Recently it…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-20 Henrik Garde , Stratos Staboulis

Physics has played a fundamental role in medicine sciences, specially in imaging diagnostic. Currently, image reconstruction techniques are already taught in Physics courses and there is a growing interest in new potential applications. The…

Physics Education · Physics 2013-02-22 Olavo Henrique Menin , Vanessa Rolnik , Alexandre Souto Martinez

We study the inverse conductivity problem of how to reconstruct an isotropic electrical conductivity distribution $\gamma$ in an object from static electrical measurements on the boundary of the object. We give an exact reconstruction…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Kim Knudsen , Alexandru Tamasan

The Inverse Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) problem on recovering electrical conductivity tensor and potential in the body based on the measurement of the boundary voltages on the electrodes for a given electrode current is analyzed.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-18 Ugur G. Abdulla , Vladislav Bukshtynov , Saleheh Seif

This paper considers the problem of noise-robust neural operator approximation for the solution map of Calder\'on's inverse conductivity problem. In this continuum model of electrical impedance tomography (EIT), the boundary measurements…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Maarten V. de Hoop , Nikola B. Kovachki , Matti Lassas , Nicholas H. Nelsen

We show the validity of Nachman's procedure (Ann. Math. 128(3):531-576, 1988) for reconstructing a conductivity function $\gamma$ in a smooth bounded domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^n$ ($n\geq 3$) from its Dirichlet-to-Neumann map…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Ashwin Tarikere

Herein, we study an inverse problem for detecting unknown obstacles by the enclosure method using the Dirichlet--to--Neumann map for measurements. We justify the method for an penetrable obstacle case involving a biharmonic equation. We use…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-28 Gyeongha Hwang , Manas Kar

A generalized variant of the Calder\'on problem from electrical impedance tomography with partial data for anisotropic Lipschitz conductivities is considered in an arbitrary space dimension $n \geq 2$. The following two results are shown:…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2012-05-22 Jussi Behrndt , Jonathan Rohleder

We consider the inverse problem in geophysics of imaging the subsurface of the Earth in cases where a region below the surface is known to be formed by strata of different materials and the depths and thicknesses of the strata and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-19 Giovanni Alessandrini , Maarten V. de Hoop , Romina Gaburro , Eva Sincich

We consider the problem of reconstructing of the boundary of an unknown inclusion together with its conductivity from the localized Dirichlet-to-Neumann map. We give an exact reconstruction procedure and apply the method to an inverse…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-09 Masaru Ikehata

Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) uses current-voltage measurements on the surface of an imaging subject to detect conductivity changes or anomalies. EIT is a promising new technique with great potential in medical imaging and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-19 Bastian Harrach , Marcel Ullrich

In this paper we investigate the problem of identifying conductivity in electrical impedance tomography from one boundary measurement. A variational method with total variation regularization is here proposed to tackle this problem. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-09-26 Michael Hinze , Barbara Kaltenbacher , Tran Nhan Tam Quyen

In acousto-electric tomography the goal is to reconstruct the electric conductivity in a domain from electrostatic boundary measurements of corresponding currents and voltages, while the domain is penetrated by a time-dependent acoustic…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-02-01 Bjørn Jensen , Adrian Kirkeby , Kim Knudsen

We consider boundary measurements for the wave equation on a bounded domain $M \subset \R^2$ or on a compact Riemannian surface, and introduce a method to locate a discontinuity in the wave speed. Assuming that the wave speed consist of an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-06-17 Lauri Oksanen

In this work we develop and analyze an adaptive finite element method for efficiently solving electrical impedance tomography -- a severely ill-posed nonlinear inverse problem for recovering the conductivity from boundary voltage…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-16 Bangti Jin , Yifeng Xu , Jun Zou

The ill-posedness of Calder\'on's inverse conductivity problem, responsible for the poor spatial resolution of Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT), has been an impetus for the development of hybrid imaging techniques, which compensate for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-28 Allan Greenleaf , Matti Lassas , Matteo Santacesaria , Samuli Siltanen , Gunther Uhlmann

Two reconstruction methods of Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) are numerically compared for nonsmooth conductivities in the plane based on the use of complex geometrical optics (CGO) solutions to D-bar equations involving the global…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-17 Kari Astala , Lassi Päivärinta , Juan Manuel Reyes , Samuli Siltanen

This paper proposes a novel approach to reconstruct changes in a target conductivity from electrical impedance tomography measurements. As in the conventional difference imaging, the reconstruction of the conductivity change is based on…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-03-27 Dong Liu , Ville Kolehmainen , Samuli Siltanen , Anne maria Laukkanen , Aku Seppanen

In computational PDE-based inverse problems, a finite amount of data is collected to infer unknown parameters in the PDE. In order to obtain accurate inferences, the collected data must be informative about the unknown parameters. How to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-04 Tan Bui-Thanh , Qin Li , Leonardo Zepeda-Núñez

In this paper, we give probabilistic interpretations of both, the forward and the inverse problem of electrical impedance tomography with possibly anisotropic, merely measurable conductivities: Using the theory of symmetric Dirichlet…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-03-17 Petteri Piiroinen , Martin Simon