In medical applications of ultrasound tomography, the possibilities for transducer placement are constrained by the geometry of the human body.  In this talk, optimal transducer placement and excitation patterns will be discussed for several geometries, and their effects on image quality and computation time will be compared for simulated medical imaging data reconstructed using iterative and a direct (D-bar) method.

This presentation is part of Minisymposium “MS77 - Advances in Ultrasound Tomography (2 parts)”
organized by: Jennifer Mueller (Colorado State University) , Raul Gonzalez Lima (Universidade de São Paulo) .

Authors:

Jennifer Mueller (Colorado State University)

Keywords:

image reconstruction, inverse problems, nonlinear optimization