Conductivity imaging by the method of characteristics in the 1-Laplacian

    Authors

    A. Tamasan;J. Veras

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Inverse Probl.

    Keywords

    ELECTRICAL-IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC-RESONANCE; CURRENT-DENSITY; RECONSTRUCTION; MREIT; INDUCTION; ALGORITHM; Mathematics, Applied; Physics, Mathematical

    Abstract

    We consider the problem of reconstruction of a sufficiently smooth planar conductivity from the knowledge of the magnitude vertical bar J vertical bar of one current density field inside the domain, and the corresponding voltage and current on a part of the boundary. Mathematically, we are led to the Cauchy problem for the the 1-Laplacian with partial data. Different from existing works, we show that the equipotential lines are characteristics in a first order quasilinear partial differential equation. The conductivity can be recovered in the region flown by the characteristics originating at parts of the boundary where the data are available. Numerical experiments show the feasibility of this alternative method.

    Journal Title

    Inverse Problems

    Volume

    28

    Issue/Number

    8

    Publication Date

    1-1-2012

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    13

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000307012900007

    ISSN

    0266-5611

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