Cauchy problem for Ultrasound Modulated EIT

Details Cauchy problem for Ultrasound Modulated EIT Cauchy problem for Ultrasound Modulated EIT

2012-01-04

arxiv.org/abs/1201.0972v1

Mathematics

Analysis of PDEs

26 pages, 6 figures

Scientific paper

Ultrasound modulation of electrical or optical properties of materials offers the possibility to devise hybrid imaging techniques that combine the high electrical or optical contrast observed in many settings of interest with the high resolution of ultrasound. Mathematically, these modalities require that we reconstruct a diffusion coefficient $\sigma(x)$ for $x\in X$, a bounded domain in $\Rm^n$, from knowledge of $\sigma(x)|\nabla u|^2(x)$ for $x\in X$, where $u$ is the solution to the elliptic equation $-\nabla\cdot\sigma\nabla u=0$ in $X$ with $u=f$ on $\partial X$. This inverse problem may be recast as a nonlinear equation, which formally takes the form of a 0-Laplacian. Whereas $p-$Laplacians with $p>1$ are well-studied variational elliptic non-linear equations, $p=1$ is a limiting case with a convex but not strictly convex functional, and the case $p<1$ admits a variational formulation with a functional that is not convex. In this paper, we augment the equation for the 0-Laplacian with full Cauchy data at the domain's boundary, which results in a, formally overdetermined, nonlinear hyperbolic equation. The paper presents existence, uniqueness, and stability results for the Cauchy problem of the 0-Laplacian. In general, the diffusion coefficient $\sigma(x)$ can be stably reconstructed only on a subset of $X$ described as the domain of influence of the space-like part of the boundary $\partial X$ for an appropriate Lorentzian metric. Global reconstructions for specific geometries or based on the construction of appropriate complex geometric optics solutions are also analyzed.

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