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Title: Comparison of the three tokamak plasma tomography methods for high spatial resolution and fast calculation

Journal Article · · Review of Scientific Instruments
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2229277· OSTI ID:20861375
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  1. Department of Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 373-1 Guseong-dong, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-701 (Korea, Republic of)

High spatial resolution tomographic reconstructions with several thousand pixels were performed by three different reconstruction algorithms. To overcome the increased ill posedness due to the use of a large number of pixels, the fast maximum entropy method (MEM) and the Phillips-Tikhonov method were used without any biasing information. The developed spatially resolved fast tomography codes were tested with the KSTAR plasma-like emissivity phantom and the TCV soft x-ray data. The reconstruction results were compared with those by the minimum Fisher information method, and these three methods shows the reliable reconstruction results. Speedup of the calculation was attempted by implementing the parallel computing technique via MATHLINK in the fast MEM code written in the MATHEMATICA language. The calculation speed of the fast MEM code was improved by about ten times without loss of accuracy despite the large number of pixels (2700 and 3500 pixels)

OSTI ID:
20861375
Journal Information:
Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 77, Issue 10; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.2229277; (c) 2006 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0034-6748
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English