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Bastian Harrach

0000-0002-8666-7791

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Recent progress on Frequency Difference Electrical Impedance Tomography

2009

Although time-dierence EIT(tdEIT) has shown promise as a medical EIT imaging tech- nique such as monitoring lung function, static EIT has suered from forward computational model errors including boundary geometry and electrode positions uncertainty combined with the ill-posed and highly nonlinear nature of the corresponding inverse problem. Since 1980s, there has been great endeavor to create forward computational models with the necessary accuracy required for EIT recon- struction, but these eorts were not successful in clinical environment. This is the main reason why we consider frequency-dieren ce EIT (fdEIT) where we take advantage of frequency dependance of biological tissue by inject…

PhysicsComputational modelNonlinear systemAcousticsBoundary (topology)Anomaly detectionBiological tissueInverse problemElectrical impedance tomographyFrequency differenceESAIM: Proceedings
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Detecting Inclusions in Electrical Impedance Tomography Without Reference Measurements

2009

We develop a new variant of the factorization method that can be used to detect inclusions in electrical impedance tomography from either absolute current-to-voltage measurements at a single, nonzero frequency or from frequency-difference measurements. This eliminates the need for numerically simulated reference measurements at an inclusion-free body and thus greatly improves the method's robustness against forward modeling errors, e.g., in the assumed body's shape.

Mathematical optimizationRobustness (computer science)Applied MathematicsFactorization methodNew variantInverse problemAlgorithmElectrical impedance tomographyMathematicsSIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics
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Simultaneous imaging of absorption and scattering in dc diffuse optical tomography

2009

We present new results on the fundamental nonuniqueness issue in dc diffuse optical tomography (DOT) that resolve a long-standing conflict between theory and practice. Theoretically, scattering and absorption properties of the imaged media were proven to produce equivalent and thus indistinguishable effects. However, successful simultaneous reconstructions of both parameters were obtained in phantom experiments.

OpticsChemistryScatteringbusiness.industrybusinessAbsorption (electromagnetic radiation)Imaging phantomDiffuse optical imaging
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Dimension bounds in monotonicity methods for the Helmholtz equation

2019

The article [B. Harrach, V. Pohjola, and M. Salo, Anal. PDE] established a monotonicity inequality for the Helmholtz equation and presented applications to shape detection and local uniqueness in inverse boundary problems. The monotonicity inequality states that if two scattering coefficients satisfy $q_1 \leq q_2$, then the corresponding Neumann-to-Dirichlet operators satisfy $\Lambda(q_1) \leq \Lambda(q_2)$ up to a finite-dimensional subspace. Here we improve the bounds for the dimension of this space. In particular, if $q_1$ and $q_2$ have the same number of positive Neumann eigenvalues, then the finite-dimensional space is trivial. peerReviewed

Helmholtz equationMathematics::Number Theorymontonicity methodMonotonic function01 natural sciencesinversio-ongelmatMathematics::Numerical AnalysisMathematics - Spectral TheoryMathematics - Analysis of PDEsDimension (vector space)FOS: MathematicsHelmholtz equationUniqueness0101 mathematicsSpectral Theory (math.SP)Mathematicsinverse problemsApplied Mathematics010102 general mathematicsMathematical analysisInverse problemMathematics::Spectral Theory010101 applied mathematicsComputational MathematicsNonlinear Sciences::Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems35R30AnalysisAnalysis of PDEs (math.AP)
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Monotonicity and local uniqueness for the Helmholtz equation

2017

This work extends monotonicity-based methods in inverse problems to the case of the Helmholtz (or stationary Schr\"odinger) equation $(\Delta + k^2 q) u = 0$ in a bounded domain for fixed non-resonance frequency $k>0$ and real-valued scattering coefficient function $q$. We show a monotonicity relation between the scattering coefficient $q$ and the local Neumann-Dirichlet operator that holds up to finitely many eigenvalues. Combining this with the method of localized potentials, or Runge approximation, adapted to the case where finitely many constraints are present, we derive a constructive monotonicity-based characterization of scatterers from partial boundary data. We also obtain the local…

Helmholtz equationMathematics::Number Theorylocalized potentialsBoundary (topology)Monotonic function01 natural sciencesDomain (mathematical analysis)inversio-ongelmat35R30 35J05symbols.namesakeMathematics - Analysis of PDEs35J050103 physical sciencesFOS: MathematicsUniquenessHelmholtz equation0101 mathematicsinverse coefficient problemsEigenvalues and eigenvectorsMathematicsNumerical AnalysisApplied Mathematics010102 general mathematicsMathematical analysisMathematics::Spectral Theorymonotonicitystationary Schrödinger equation35R30Helmholtz free energyBounded functionsymbols010307 mathematical physicsmonotonicity localized potentialsAnalysisAnalysis of PDEs (math.AP)
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Monotony Based Imaging in EIT

2010

We consider the problem of determining conductivity anomalies inside a body from voltage‐current measurements on its surface. By combining the monotonicity method of Tamburrino and Rubinacci with the concept of localized potentials, we derive a new imaging method that is capable of reconstructing the exact (outer) shape of the anomalies. We furthermore show that the method can be implemented without solving any non‐homogeneous forward problems and show a first numerical result.

Surface (mathematics)Partial differential equationMathematical analysisMonotonic functionBoundary value problemOperator theoryConductivityElectrical impedance tomographyMathematicsMathematical OperatorsAIP Conference Proceedings
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Monotonicity-based inversion of the fractional Schr\"odinger equation II. General potentials and stability

2019

In this work, we use monotonicity-based methods for the fractional Schr\"odinger equation with general potentials $q\in L^\infty(\Omega)$ in a Lipschitz bounded open set $\Omega\subset \mathbb R^n$ in any dimension $n\in \mathbb N$. We demonstrate that if-and-only-if monotonicity relations between potentials and the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map hold up to a finite dimensional subspace. Based on these if-and-only-if monotonicity relations, we derive a constructive global uniqueness results for the fractional Calder\'on problem and its linearized version. We also derive a reconstruction method for unknown obstacles in a given domain that only requires the background solution of the fractional Sch…

Applied MathematicsMathematical analysisOpen setMonotonic functionLipschitz continuity01 natural sciencesInversion (discrete mathematics)Stability (probability)OmegaSchrödinger equation010101 applied mathematicsComputational Mathematicssymbols.namesakeMathematics - Analysis of PDEs35R30Bounded functionsymbols0101 mathematicsAnalysisMathematics
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Justification of point electrode models in electrical impedance tomography

2011

The most accurate model for real-life electrical impedance tomography is the complete electrode model, which takes into account electrode shapes and (usually unknown) contact impedances at electrode-object interfaces. When the electrodes are small, however, it is tempting to formally replace them by point sources. This simplifies the model considerably and completely eliminates the effect of contact impedance. In this work we rigorously justify such a point electrode model for the important case of having difference measurements ("relative data") as data for the reconstruction problem. We do this by deriving the asymptotic limit of the complete model for vanishing electrode size. This is s…

ta113Work (thermodynamics)Mathematical optimizationta112Applied MathematicsMathematical analysista111Zero (linguistics)Interpretation (model theory)Physics::Plasma PhysicsModeling and SimulationElectrodePoint (geometry)Limit (mathematics)Electrical impedanceElectrical impedance tomographyta512MathematicsMATHEMATICAL MODELS AND METHODS IN APPLIED SCIENCES
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Monotonicity and enclosure methods for the p-Laplace equation

2018

We show that the convex hull of a monotone perturbation of a homogeneous background conductivity in the $p$-conductivity equation is determined by knowledge of the nonlinear Dirichlet-Neumann operator. We give two independent proofs, one of which is based on the monotonicity method and the other on the enclosure method. Our results are constructive and require no jump or smoothness properties on the conductivity perturbation or its support.

Convex hull35R30 (Primary) 35J92 (Secondary)EnclosurePerturbation (astronomy)Monotonic function01 natural sciencesConstructiveMathematics - Analysis of PDEsEnclosure methodFOS: Mathematics0101 mathematicsMathematicsInclusion detectionMonotonicity methodLaplace's equationmonotonicity methodApplied Mathematics010102 general mathematicsMathematical analysista111inclusion detection010101 applied mathematicsNonlinear systemMonotone polygonp-Laplace equationAnalysis of PDEs (math.AP)enclosure method
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