Direct Reconstructions of Conductivities from Boundary Measurements

Abstract

The problem of reconstructing an unknown electric conductivity from boundary measurements has applications in medical imaging, geophysics, and nondestructive testing. A. Nachman [Ann. of Math. (2), 143 (1996), pp. 71--96.] proved global uniqueness for the two-dimensional inverse conductivity problem using a constructive method of proof. Based on this proof, Siltanen, Mueller, and Isaacson [Inverse Problems, 16 (2000), pp. 681--699] presented a new numerical reconstruction method that solves the nonlinear problem directly without iteration. The method was verified with nonnoisy rotationally symmetric examples. In this paper the method is extended by introducing a new regularization scheme, which is analyzed theoretically and tested on symmetric and nonsymmetric numerical examples containing computer simulated noise.