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(a) L 2 solution with 2.5%<br />

AWGN, first step. Noisy<br />

but useful reconstruction.<br />

(b) TV solution with 1.5%<br />

AWGN, first step. Noise<br />

dominated solution.<br />

Figure 7.9: <strong>Reconstruction</strong>s <strong>of</strong> Phantom A.<br />

Iteration 8<br />

L1<br />

L2<br />

phantom<br />

Figure 7.10: Phantom B pr<strong>of</strong>iles.<br />

In our work numerical experiments this did not result always in a significant improvement in<br />

reconstructed images. We adopted there<strong>for</strong>e a the arrangement <strong>of</strong> not updating the Jacobian<br />

at each single iteration. This provides a reduction in the reconstruction computational time.<br />

As an additional numerical experiment, we evaluated the use <strong>of</strong> the same regularization<br />

matrix L as <strong>for</strong> TV regularization, (equation 7.9), with the quadratic algorithm (7.3).<br />

Although reconstructions from the first step were identical to TV reconstructions, the<br />

quadratic solutions rapidly degraded, producing noisy reconstructions that were dominated<br />

by noise artefacts after the 10 th iteration. The TV prior is not recommended <strong>for</strong> use with<br />

the quadratic algorithm.<br />

7.4.6 Preliminary testing in <strong>3D</strong><br />

The generality <strong>of</strong> the PD-IPM scheme allows its use <strong>for</strong> the <strong>3D</strong> EIT reconstructions. The<br />

method was expected to work equally well in three dimensions, and to be easily extended<br />

to this case. To validate this a single experiment with the simulated tank <strong>of</strong> figure 7.15 was<br />

per<strong>for</strong>med. The tank has 315 nodes, 1104 elements, 32 electrodes and is constructed <strong>of</strong> 4<br />

identical layers <strong>of</strong> tetrahedrons and was used <strong>for</strong> both simulating data and reconstruction. A<br />

single object in the shape <strong>of</strong> a crescent was used to generate simulated data. <strong>Reconstruction</strong>s<br />

were made on the same mesh. The convergence <strong>of</strong> the PD-IPM algorithm is shown in figure<br />

7.16. Convergence occurred rapidly with a reasonable image appearing in the first iteration<br />

and convergence being achieved by the 8 th iteration - there was no appreciable improvement<br />

in the image or change in the error norm after the 8 th iteration. Figure 7.17 shows slices<br />

taken at the five layer boundaries (including top and bottom tank surfaces) <strong>of</strong> the simulated<br />

tank. Figure 7.17 shows reconstructed conductivities after the first iteration, Figure 7.18<br />

shows reconstructed conductivities after 8 iterations. The results were not as good as<br />

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