Determining two coefficients in diffuse optical tomography with incomplete and noisy Cauchy data

Abstract

Abstract In this paper we investigate the non-linear and ill-posed inverse problem of simultaneously identifying the conductivity and the reaction in diffuse optical tomography with noisy measurement data available on an accessible part of the boundary. We propose an energy functional method and the total variational regularization combining with the quadratic stabilizing term to formulate the identification problem to a PDE constrained optimization problem. We show the stability of the proposed regularization method and the convergence of the finite element regularized solutions to the identification in the L s -norm for all s ∈ [0, ∞) and in the sense of the Bregman distance with respect to the total variation semi-norm. To illustrate the theoretical results, a numerical case study is presented which supports our analytical findings.