Infinite-dimensional inverse problems with finite measurements

Abstract

We present a general framework to study uniqueness, stability and reconstruction for infinite-dimensional inverse problems when only a finite-dimensional approximation of the measurements is available. For a large class of inverse problems satisfying Lipschitz stability we show that the same estimate holds even with a finite number of measurements. We also derive a globally convergent reconstruction algorithm based on the Landweber iteration. This theory applies to nonlinear ill-posed problems such as electrical impedance tomography, inverse scattering and quantitative photoacoustic tomography, under the assumption that the unknown belongs to a finite-dimensional subspace.