The reconstruction in quantitative coupled physics imaging often requires that the solutions of certain PDEs, e.g. the conductivity equation, the Helmholtz equation or Maxwell's equations, satisfy certain non-zero constraints, such as the absence of critical points. From the mathematical point of view, it is then interesting to see whether one can construct suitable boundary values (the illuminations used to probe the object), possibly independently of the unknown coefficients, in such a way that the corresponding solutions satisfy the required properties. In this talk, I will discuss several techniques used for this aim, as well as some negative results.

This presentation is part of Minisymposium “MS12 - New directions in hybrid data tomography (2 parts)”
organized by: Kim Knudsen (Technical University of Denmark) , Cong Shi (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) .

Authors:

Giovanni S. Alberti (University of Genoa )

Keywords:

computed tomography, coupled-physics imaging, inverse problems, partial differential equation models, thermoacoustic tomography