Hybrid tomography for conductivity imaging

Abstract

Hybrid imaging techniques utilize couplings of physical modalities—they are called hybrid, because typically, the excitation and measurement quantities belong to different modalities. Recently there has been an enormous research interest in this area because these methods promise very high resolution. In this paper, we give a review on hybrid tomography methods for electrical conductivity imaging. The reviewed imaging methods utilize couplings between electric, magnetic and ultrasound modalities. By this it is possible to perform high-resolution electrical impedance imaging and to overcome the low-resolution problem of electric impedance tomography.