The Factorization Method for Electrical Impedance Tomography in the Half-Space

We consider the inverse problem of electrical impedance tomography in a conducting half-space, given electrostatic measurements on its boundary, i. e., a hyperplane. We first provide a rigorous weak analysis of the corresponding forward problem and then develop a numerical algorithm to solve an asso...

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Veröffentlicht in:SIAM journal on applied mathematics 2008-01, Vol.68 (4), p.907-924
Hauptverfasser: Hanke, Martin, Schappel, Birgit
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:We consider the inverse problem of electrical impedance tomography in a conducting half-space, given electrostatic measurements on its boundary, i. e., a hyperplane. We first provide a rigorous weak analysis of the corresponding forward problem and then develop a numerical algorithm to solve an associated inverse problem. This inverse problem consists of the reconstruction of certain inclusions within the half-space which have a different conductivity than the background. To solve the inverse problem we employ the so-called factorization method of Kirsch, which so far has only been considered for the impedance tomography problem in bounded domains. Our analysis of the forward problem makes use of a Liouville-type argument which says that a harmonic function in the entire two-dimensional plane must be a constant if some weighted L²-norm of this function is bounded.
ISSN:0036-1399
1095-712X
DOI:10.1137/06067064X