Preconditioning of projected SIRT algorithm for electromagnetic tomography

Abstract

For Electromagnetic Tomography (EMT) Techniques, image reconstruction is one of the crucial steps, which directly affects the quality of reconstruction and real-time performance of the EMT system. Following analyzing a pre-iterative method for SIRT (simultaneous iterative reconstruction technique) algorithm, a preconditioning for the projected SIRT is proposed to accelerate the image reconstruction speed and alleviate the ill-posed nature of the EMT inverse problem. Experimental tests confirm that the quality of the reconstructed images using the preconditioning algorithm is enhanced with only a small number of iterations required.