Lecture 1 Introduction to the Forward Problem

The video of the first lecture is available as a download (about 628MBytes). Kyriakos has made a smaller avi file or you can see it in 15min chunks part1, part2,part3,part4. We are trying Youtube (not yet sure resolution is enough) part1

There is a home work exercise implicit in the lecture. That is to check the calculation of the Dirichlet to Neumann map for the concentric anomaly by separation of variables. Another interesting thing to do is do some calculations of current and voltage patterns, and see how they change with rho and mu.

If you get anywhere with this post it in the comments too!

Initial reading list

So here is a short reading list for people just starting out in EIT reconstruction

• The book chapter W Lionheart, N.Polydordes and A Borsic, The reconstruction problem, Part 1 of Electrical Impedance Tomography: Methods, History and Applications, (ed) D S Holder, Institute of Physics, p3-64, 2004. It is available as a preprint MIMS e-print: 2006.421>but you might encourage your library to buy the whole book especially if you want to read about medical applications. This chapter is aimed especially and engineering PhD students jsut starting out in EIT.
• Andy Adler, Romina Gaburro, William Lionheart, EIT, chapter in Handbook of Mathematical Methods in Imaging, O Scherzer, Springer-Verlag, 2010. This chapter is more aimed at maths PhD students thinking of working in EIT, especially the sections on uniqueness. The introductory part and the numerical methods towards the end are suited to engineering students. An excerpt from the this chapter serves as notes for my first lecture.
  
• Marko Vauhkonen's PhD thesis PhD thesis: Electrical impedance tomography and prior information (PDF) , 1997. It is still a good place to learn about practical numerical impelementation of EIT reconstruction algorithms.

(To be continued......)

Nick Polydorides thesis Image Reconstruction Algorithms for Soft-Field Tomography is still useful especially for the 3D problem.

Welcome

With two new PhD students starting here in Manchester on Electrical Impedance Tomography reconstruction I have to get them quickly up to speed with the basics of reconstruction. My idea was to try to share this as much as possible with others starting out on learning EIT reconstruction (for medical, process or geophysical imaging) around the world.

I have not yet figured out how to do video streaming or video conferenceing in an easy way, so my first shot is to give a lecture (the first is today Thursday 23/09/2010 at 4pm in the Alan Turing Building Frank Adams Room 2), video it and post it on something like youtube.

Hopefully people following our impromptu course will be able to see the video and post queries and comments here on the blog.

Please introduce yourself as a comment to this post. Say at least your name, if you are a PhD student, postdoc or whatever and at what institution, and roughly what you are working on (or planning to work on)

Bill Lionheart