Direct Electrical Impedance Tomography for Nonsmooth Conductivities

A new reconstruction algorithm is presented for eit in dimension two, based on the constructive uniqueness proof given by Astala and Päivärinta in [Ann. of Math. 163 (2006)]. The method is non-iterative, provides a noiserobust solution of the full nonlinear eit problem, and applies to more general conductivities than previous approaches. In particular, the new algorithm applies to piecewise smooth conductivities. Reconstructions from noisy and non-noisy simulated data from conductivity distributions representing a crosssections of a chest and a layered medium such as stratified flow in a pipeline are presented. The results suggest that the new method can recover useful and reasonably accurate eit images from data corrupted by realistic amounts of measurement noise. In particular, the dynamic range in medium-contrast conductivities is reconstructed remarkably well. Version 24 (submitted), August 17, 2010