Reconstruction of a fully anisotropic elasticity tensor from knowledge of displacement fields

Abstract

We present explicit reconstruction algorithms for fully anisotropic unknown elasticity tensors from knowledge of a finite number of internal displacement fields, with applications to transient elastography. Under certain rank-maximality assumptions satified by the strain fields, explicit algebraic reconstruction formulas are provided. A discussion ensues on how to fulfill these assumptions, describing the range of validity of the approach. We also show how the general method can be applied to more specific cases such as the transversely isotropic one.