Bayesian Formulation of Acousto-Electric Tomography and Quantified Uncertainty in Limited View
For practitioners of hybrid imaging, this provides a principled Bayesian approach to AET that handles limited-view configurations and quantifies reconstruction uncertainty, which is incremental over existing analytical methods.
This work formulates the acousto-electric tomography inverse problem in a Bayesian framework, enabling uncertainty quantification and improved reconstruction from limited-view data. Numerical experiments show that small inclusions near the accessible boundary can be reconstructed from a single EIT measurement with quantified uncertainty.
Acousto-electric tomography (AET) is a hybrid imaging modality that combines electrical impedance tomography with focused ultrasound perturbations to obtain interior power density measurements, which provide additional information that can enhance the stability of conductivity reconstruction. In this work, we study the AET inverse problem within a Bayesian framework and compare statistical reconstruction with analytical approaches. The unknown conductivity is modeled as a random field, and inference is based on the posterior distribution conditioned on the measurements. We consider likelihood constructions based on both L1- and L2-type data misfit norms and establish Bayesian well-posedness for both formulations within the framework of Stuart (2010). Numerical experiments investigate the performance of the Bayesian method from noisy power density measurements using the L1 and L2 likelihood functions and a smooth prior and a piecewise-constant prior for different limited view configurations, including severely limited boundary access. In particular, we demonstrate that small inclusions near the accessible boundary can be reconstructed from AET data corresponding to a single EIT measurement, and we quantify reconstruction uncertainty through posterior statistics.