title: Feasibility of the backprojection method for reconstruction of low contrast perturbations in a conducting background in magnetic induction tomography.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Application of the backprojection image reconstruction algorithm in magnetic induction tomography for imaging of low contrast inclusions in conductive background is investigated.
  
  
  METHODS
  Both FDTD numerical simulation and experiments with the 16-channel measuring system and saline phantom are used.
  
  
  RESULTS
  It is demonstrated that spatial redistribution of the sensitivity of measurements related with background conductivity does not affect the projection lines and keeps possibility of backprojection image reconstruction, which is important in biomedical applications of MIT.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The applicability of backprojection in biomedical MIT has been proved. The reconstruction algorithm is explained in detail.
authors.affiliation: Kotel'nikov Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics of the RAS, Mokhovaya Str. 11-7, Moscow 125009, Russia.
authors.forename: A V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Korjenevsky
authors.forename: S A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Sapetsky
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D005240:Feasibility Studies; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D060328:Magnetic Phenomena; D019047:Phantoms, Imaging; D059629:Signal-To-Noise Ratio; D014054:Tomography