An image reconstruction framework based on boundary voltages for ultrasound modulated electrical impedance tomography
A new image reconstruction framework based on boundary voltages is presented for ultrasound modulated electrical impedance tomography (UMEIT) Combining the electric and acoustic modalities, UMEIT reconstructs the conductivity distribution with more measurements with position information. The proposed image reconstruction framework begins with approximately constructing the sensitivity matrix of the imaging object with inclusion. Then the conductivity is recovered from the boundary voltages of the imaging object. To solve the nonlinear inverse problem, an optimization method is adopted and the iterative method is tested. Compared with that for electrical resistance tomography (ERT) the newly constructed sensitivity matrix is more sensitive to the inclusion, even in the center of the imaging object, and it contains more effective information about the inclusions. Finally, image reconstruction is carried out by the conjugate gradient algorithm, and results show that reconstructed images with higher quality can be obtained for UMEIT with a faster convergence rate. Both theory and image reconstruction results validate the feasibility of the proposed framework for UMEIT and confirm that UMEIT is a potential imaging technique.