Reconstruction of extended regions in EIT with a generalized Robin transmission condition

Abstract

In this paper, we consider an inverse shape problem coming from electrical impedance tomography (EIT) with a generalized Robin transmission condition. We will derive an algorithm in order to detect whether two materials that should be in contact are separated or delaminated. More precisely, we assume that the undamaged material or background state is known and shares an interface or boundary with the damaged subregion. The Robin transmission condition on this boundary asymptotically models delamination. We assume that the Dirichlet-to-Neumann (DtN) operator is given from measuring the current on the surface of the material from an imposed voltage. We show that this mapping uniquely recovers the boundary parameters. Furthermore, using this electrostatic Cauchy data as physical measurements, we can determine if all of the coefficients from the Robin transmission condition are real-valued or complex-valued. We study these two cases separately and show that the regularized factorization method can be used to detect whether delamination has occurred and recover the damaged subregion. Numerical examples will be presented for both cases in two dimensions in the unit circle.