Electrical Impedance Tomography Image Reconstruction Using Iterative Lavrentiev and L-Curve-Based Regularization Algorithm

Wenqin WANG, Jingye CAI, Lian YANG

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DOI: 10.4236/jemaa.2010.21007                

Abstract

Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is a technique for determining the electrical conductivity and permittivity distribution inside a medium from measurements made on its surface. The impedance distribution reconstruction in EIT is a nonlinear inverse problem that requires the use of a regularization method. The generalized Tikhonov regularization methods are often used in solving inverse problems. However, for EIT image reconstruction, the generalized Tikhonov regularization methods may lose the boundary information due to its smoothing operation. In this paper, we propose an iterative Lavrentiev regularization and L-curve-based algorithm to reconstruct EIT images. The regularization parameter should be carefully chosen, but it is often heuristically selected in the conventional regularization-based reconstruction algorithms. So, an L-curve-based optimization algorithm is used for selecting the Lavrentiev regularization parameter. Numerical analysis and simulation results are performed to illustrate EIT image reconstruction. It is shown that choosing the appropriate regularization parameter plays an important role in reconstructing EIT images.

Keywords

Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT), Reconstruction Algorithm, Iterative Lavrentiev, Regularization Parameter, Inverse Problem.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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