Geodesic
Electrode modelling: The effect of contact impedance
Dardé, Jérémi1  ; Staboulis, Stratos2
1 Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS IMT, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse cedex 9, France
2 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 68, 00014, Finland
ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis , Tome 50 (2016) no. 2, pp. 415-431

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The most realistic model for current-to-voltage measurements of electrical impedance tomography is the complete electrode model which takes into account electrode shapes and contact impedances at the electrode/object interfaces. When contact impedances are small, numerical instability can be avoided by replacing the complete model with the shunt model in which perfect contacts, that is zero contact impedances, are assumed. In the present work we show that using the shunt model causes only a (almost) linear error with respect to the contact impedances in modelling absolute current-to-voltage measurements. Moreover, we note that the electric potentials predicted by the two models exhibit different Sobolev regularity properties. This causes, in particular, different convergence rates for a widely used finite element approximation of the potentials. The theoretical results are backed up by two-dimensional numerical experiments.

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DOI : 10.1051/m2an/2015049
Classification : 35Q60, 65N15, 35J25, 65L11
Keywords: Electric impedance tomography, complete electrode model, shunt model, mixed boundary conditions, elliptic boundary value problems

Dardé, Jérémi 1 ; Staboulis, Stratos 2

1 Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS IMT, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse cedex 9, France
2 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 68, 00014, Finland 
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Dardé, Jérémi; Staboulis, Stratos. Electrode modelling: The effect of contact impedance. ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis , Tome 50 (2016) no. 2, pp. 415-431. doi: 10.1051/m2an/2015049

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