Fast absolute 3D CGO-based electrical impedance tomography on experimental tank data

Physiol Meas. 2022 Dec 6;43(12):10.1088/1361-6579/aca26b. doi: 10.1088/1361-6579/aca26b.

Abstract

Objective.To present the first 3D CGO-based absolute EIT reconstructions from experimental tank data.Approach.CGO-based methods for absolute EIT imaging are compared to traditional TV regularized non-linear least squares reconstruction methods. Additional robustness testing is performed by considering incorrect modeling of domain shape.Main Results.The CGO-based methods are fast, and show strong robustness to incorrect domain modeling comparable to classic difference EIT imaging and fewer boundary artefacts than the TV regularized non-linear least squares reference reconstructions.Significance.This work is the first to demonstrate fully 3D CGO-based absolute EIT reconstruction on experimental data and also compares to TV-regularized absolute reconstruction. The speed (1-5 s) and quality of the reconstructions is encouraging for future work in absolute EIT.

Keywords: absolute imaging; complex geometrical optics; conductivity; electrical impedance tomography.