3D reconstruction for partial data electrical impedance tomography using a sparsity prior

In electrical impedance tomography the electrical conductivity inside a physical body is computed from electro-static boundary measurements. The focus of this paper is to extend recent results for the 2D problem to 3D: prior information about the sparsity and spatial distribution of the conductivity is used to improve reconstructions for the partial data problem with Cauchy data measured only on a subset of the boundary.

A sparsity prior is enforced using the ℓ1 norm in the penalty term of a Tikhonov functional, and spatial prior information is incorporated by applying a spatially distributed regularization parameter. The optimization problem is solved numerically using a generalized conditional gradient method with soft thresholding.

Numerical examples show the effectiveness of the suggested method even for the partial data problem with measurements affected by noise.