Recovery of blocky images in electrical impedance tomography (Q4356945)

We describe some aspects of the application of total variation minimization techniques to the linearized electrical impedance tomography problem. We formulate a reconstruction problem, describing one approach to total variation regularization by constrained minimization. A stabilization strategy for the constraints is described. We discuss some results on characterizing conductivity images which can be completely recovered, under the assumption that the instability in the problem is restricted to a limited range of frequency components in the image. Our study motivates other conditions which are favorable for recovering images when the instabilities are not bandlimited. We describe a very simple minimization scheme for the constrained regularized problem. Finally, some representative numerical results are presented. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0871.00041].