The stability and convergence performance of Levenberg–Marquardt method for acousto-electric tomography (AET) applied to different levels of conductivity contrast is studied in this paper. As a multi-physical imaging modality, acousto-electric tomography (AET) provides high spatial imaging resolution while also conserving the high contrast property of electrical impedance tomography. The Levenberg–Marquardt method is a well known iteration scheme which can be applied for the nonlinear problem of AET. However, the influence of the conductivity contrast on the stability and convergence performances of this conductivity reconstruction method is rarely discussed in the literature. In this paper, the performance of the Tikhonov regularization-based Levenberg–Marquardt method is applied to reconstruct conductivity map with different conductivity contrast between different regions of the domain of interest (DOI). Numerical investigations are carried out for phantoms with different conductivity contrast. Reconstructed results with different levels of noise are presented and discussed in detail.
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