Adaptive finite element methods for the solution of inverse problems in optical tomography

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作者
Bangerth, Wolfgang [1 ]
Joshi, Amit [2 ]
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[1] Texas A&M Univ, Dept Math, College Stn, TX 77843 USA
[2] Baylor Coll Med, Dept Radiol, Houston, TX 77030 USA
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10.1088/0266-5611/24/3/034011
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O29 [应用数学];
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070104 ;
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Optical tomography attempts to determine a spatially variable coefficient in the interior of a body from measurements of light fluxes at the boundary. Like in many other applications in biomedical imaging, computing solutions in optical tomography is complicated by the fact that one wants to identify an unknown number of relatively small irregularities in this coefficient at unknown locations, for example corresponding to the presence of tumors. To recover them at the resolution needed in clinical practice, one has to use meshes that, if uniformly fine, would lead to intractably large problems with hundreds of millions of unknowns. Adaptive meshes are therefore an indispensable tool. In this paper, we will describe a framework for the adaptive finite element solution of optical tomography problems. It takes into account all steps starting from the formulation of the problem including constraints on the coefficient, outer Newton-type nonlinear and inner linear iterations, regularization, and in particular the interplay of these algorithms with discretizing the problem on a sequence of adaptively refined meshes. We will demonstrate the efficiency and accuracy of these algorithms on a set of numerical examples of clinical relevance related to locating lymph nodes in tumor diagnosis.
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