Anomalous thresholds and edge singularities in electrical impedance tomography

DOI10.1063/1.531637zbMATH Open0863.92009OpenAlexW3102822093MaRDI QIDQ5284867FDOQ5284867

Authors S. Ciulli, Simona Ispas, Michael Pidcock 

Publication date 22 January 1997

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9604019

zbMATH Keywords

singularitieselectrical impedance tomographyasymptotic seriesweakly singular integral equationeigenfunction sumlogarithmic singular equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biomedical imaging and signal processing (92C55) Biological applications of optics and electromagnetic theory (78A70) Theoretical approximation of solutions to integral equations (45L05) Singular integral equations (45E99)

Abstract: Studies of models of current flow behaviour in Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) have shown that the current density distribution varies extremely rapidly near the edge of the electrodes used in the technique. This behaviour imposes severe restrictions on the numerical techniques used in image reconstruction algorithms. In this paper we have considered a simple two dimensional case and we have shown how the theory of end point/pinch singularities which was developed for studying the anomalous thresholds encountered in elementary particle physics can be used to give a complete description of the analytic structure of the current density near to the edge of the electrodes. As a byproduct of this study it was possible to give a complete description of the Riemann sheet manifold of the eigenfunctions of the logarithmic kernel. These methods can be readily extended to other weakly singular kernels.

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• Bounds for the continuation of perturbative results to the spectral region
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• Electrical Impedance Tomography
• Image reconstruction in electrical impedance tomography using an integral equation of the Lippmann-Schwinger type
• Non-linear integral equations for the complete electrode model in inverse impedance tomography
• Propagation of singularities for linearised hybrid data impedance tomography

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