A robust image reconstruction algorithm and its parallel implementation in electrical impedance tomography.
basic_science · Level V
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Abstract
An efficient and robust image reconstruction algorithm for static impedance imaging using Hachtel's augmented matrix method was developed. This improved Newton-Raphson method produced more accurate images by reducing the undesirable effects of the ill-conditioned Hessian matrix. It is demonstrated that the electrical impedance tomography (EIT) system could produce two-dimensional static images from a physical phantom with 7% spatial resolution at the center and 5% at the periphery. Static EIT image reconstruction requires a large amount of computation. In order to overcome the limitations on reducing the computation time by algorithmic approaches, the improved Newton-Raphson algorithm was implemented on a parallel computer system. It is shown that the parallel computation could reduce the computation time from hours to minutes.