Stability Analysis for Magnetic Resonance Elastography

Abstract: We consider the inverse problem of finding unknown elastic parameters from internal measurements of displacement fields for tissues. The measurements are made on the entirety of a smooth domain. Since tissues can be modeled as quasi-incompressible fluids, we examine the Stokes system and consider only the recovery of shear modulus distributions. Our main result is to establish Lipschitz stable estimates on the shear modulus distributions from internal measurements of displacement fields. These estimates imply convergence of a numerical scheme known as the Landweber iteration scheme for reconstructing the shear modulus distributions.