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Numerical modeling and high-speed parallel computing: new perspectives on tomographic microwave imaging for brain stroke detection and monitoring

  • Pierre Henri Tournier
  • , Marcella Bonazzoli
  • , Victorita Dolean
  • , Francesca Rapetti
  • , Frederic Hecht
  • , Frederic Nataf
  • , Iannis Aliferis
  • , Ibtissam El Kanfoud
  • , Claire Migliaccio
  • , Maya De Buhan
  • , Marion Darbas
  • , Serguei Semenov
  • , Christian Pichot

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Abstract

This article deals with microwave tomography for brain stroke imaging using state-of-the-art numerical modeling and massively parallel computing. Iterative microwave tomographic imaging requires the solution of an inverse problem based on a minimization algorithm (e.g., gradient based) with successive solutions of a direct problem such as the accurate modeling of a whole-microwave measurement system. Moreover, a sufficiently high number of unknowns is required to accurately represent the solution. As the system will be used for detecting a brain stroke (ischemic or hemorrhagic) as well as for monitoring during the treatment, the running times for the reconstructions should be reasonable. The method used is based on high-order finite elements, parallel preconditioners from the domain decomposition method and domain-specific language with the opensource FreeFEM-solver.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)98-110
Number of pages13
JournalIEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine
Volume59
Issue number5
Early online date22 Aug 2017
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Oct 2017

Funding

This work is supported by the French National Research Agency (ANR) grant MEDIMAX (ANR-13-MONU-0012). This work was granted access to the HPC resources of TGCC at CEA under the allocations 2016-067519 and 2016-067730 made by Grand Équipement National de Calcul Intensif (GENCI). We would like to thank ANR for its support.

Keywords

  • cerebrovascular
  • brain stroke detection
  • microwave tomography

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