Image Reconstruction for 3D Lung Imaging - Department of Systems ...
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Contents<br />
Abstract ii<br />
List <strong>of</strong> Principal Symbols xii<br />
1 Introduction 1<br />
1.1 Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1<br />
1.2 Current state and problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2<br />
1.3 Objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2<br />
1.4 Contributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4<br />
1.4.1 Contributions by Objective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4<br />
1.4.2 Miscellaneous Contributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6<br />
1.5 Record <strong>of</strong> Miscellaneous Observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7<br />
1.6 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7<br />
2 Forward Problem 8<br />
2.1 Description <strong>of</strong> a Basic EIT System and Experiment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8<br />
2.1.1 Data Collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8<br />
2.1.2 <strong>Reconstruction</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9<br />
2.2 The Forward Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10<br />
2.2.1 Physics <strong>of</strong> the problem - from Maxwell to Laplace . . . . . . . . . . 11<br />
2.3 Finite Element Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13<br />
2.3.1 Direct Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15<br />
2.3.2 Method <strong>of</strong> Weighted Residuals (MWR) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21<br />
2.3.3 Impose Boundary Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24<br />
2.4 Algorithms to solve the Forward Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27<br />
2.5 Variations on the Forward Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27<br />
2.5.1 Current Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27<br />
3 <strong>Reconstruction</strong> 32<br />
3.1 Difference <strong>Imaging</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32<br />
3.2 Jacobian Derivation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33<br />
3.2.1 Naïve Least Squares Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34<br />
3.2.2 Ill Posed Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35<br />
3.2.3 SVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35<br />
3.2.4 Regularization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37<br />
3.3 Static <strong>Imaging</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38<br />
3.3.1 MAP Regularized Inverse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40<br />
3.4 Variations <strong>of</strong> the Basic Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42<br />
3.4.1 Thoughts on Regularization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43<br />
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