Total variation image reconstruction for electrical capacitance tomography

A new iterative reconstruction technique for electrical capacitance tomography (ECT) is presented. This method applies iterative soft thresholding to penalize the total variation of the ECT image. This method is shown to allow for sharp changes between different regions of simulated ECT images, unlike conventional iterative reconstruction techniques such as ART, SIRT and the Landweber iteration. The technique is demonstrated on experimental results for a phantom with distinct regions of gas and solid. The technique is therefore appropriate for the imaging of multiphase systems.

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