Boundary Element Method and Markov Chain Monte Carlo for Object Location in Electrical Impedance Tomogrphy
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چکیده
A Bayesian approach to object location in electrical tomography is presented. The direct problem, which is traditionally modelled by domain discretization methods such as finite-element and finite-difference methods, is reformulated using a straightforward but ultimately powerful implementation of the boundary-element method.
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