Reconstruction of Voronoi Diagrams in Electrical Impedance Tomography

Date:

Event: 1st USP Postdoctoral Congress (I Congresso de Pós-Doutorados da USP)

Location: São Paulo, Brazil

Official Event Website: USP Postdoctoral Congress

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Summary: The inverse problem of electrical impedance tomography (EIT), also known as the inverse conductivity or Calderón’s problem, is an active field of research with an extensive literature; see for a thorough review of the topic. The goal of electrical impedance tomography is to reconstruct the electrical conductivity inside a medium, using measurements of the electrical potential on the boundary obtained by applying boundary currents. EIT is a low cost, noninvasive, radiation free and portable imaging modality with various applications in medical imaging, geophysics, civil engineering and nondestructive testing. In the EIT literature, the conductivity is often supposed to be a relatively smooth, continuous function. However, the case where the conductivity presents discontinuities is important for applications, in particular in geophysics and civil engineering, but also in medicine. In this project we consider the particular case where the conductivity is a piecewise constant function. The domain of definition of the conductivity can then be partitioned into cells such that the conductivity is constant in each cell. In this work we also suppose that the set of cells is given by a Voronoi diagram.