title: Assessment of errors in static electrical impedance tomography with adjacent and trigonometric current patterns.
abstract: In electrical impedance tomography (EIT), difference imaging is often preferred over static imaging. This is because of the many unknowns in the forward modelling which make it difficult to obtain reliable absolute resistivity estimates. However, static imaging and absolute resistivity values are needed in some potential applications of EIT. In this paper we demonstrate by simulation the effects of different error components that are included in the reconstruction of static EIT images. All simulations are carried out in two dimensions with the so-called complete electrode model. Errors that are considered are the modelling error in the boundary shape of an object, errors in the electrode sizes and localizations and errors in the contact impedances under the electrodes. Results using both adjacent and trigonometric current patterns are given.
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Physics, University of Kuopio, Finland.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Kolehmainen
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Vauhkonen
authors.forename: P A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Karjalainen
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Kaipio
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D017097:Electric Impedance; D004566:Electrodes; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D014054:Tomography / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data