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Hauptverfasser: Pandya, Vinit, Pandya, Santosh P., Patel, Ansh, Tahiliani, Kumudni, Ajay, Kumar
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Veröffentlicht: 2026
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author Pandya, Vinit
Pandya, Santosh P.
Patel, Ansh
Tahiliani, Kumudni
Ajay, Kumar
author_facet Pandya, Vinit
Pandya, Santosh P.
Patel, Ansh
Tahiliani, Kumudni
Ajay, Kumar
contents Infrared Imaging Video Bolometer (IRVB) measures total radiation power loss from plasma in 2 dimensions through a pinhole camera geometry. Where a free-standing thin metal foil act as a broad band absorber from Soft X-Rays to IR radiation. This configuration produces line-integrated signals with poloidal and toroidal coverage that must be inverted to recover the plasma radiation emissivity distribution on a poloidal cross-section. This study compares the tomographic methods implemented to IRVB brightness data reconstruction, namely Minimum Fisher Information (MFI), Phillips-Tikhonov regularization (PTR), and Maximum-Likelihood Expectation-Maximization (MLEM). The comparison assessment is organized around several aspects of bolometer measurements, namely viewing geometry configuration, non-negativity, robustness to noise, sensitivity to prior assumptions, convergence speed, and peak preservation. The present work also details the IRVB forward modelling process, construction of synthetic phantoms, and a validation of these reconstruction methods based on typical expected emissivity profiles, namely symmetric Gaussian distribution at plasma center, symmetric hollow-radiation emissivity profile, asymmetric radiation profiles across the poloidal cross-section, and divertor-side radiation emission profiles. The outcome is to emphasize the practical tradeoffs among reconstruction accuracy, numerical stability, and suitability for real-time or offline usage of these reconstruction methods, particularly for the IRVB camera viewing system.
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spellingShingle Comparison of Tomographic Reconstruction Algorithms for Infrared Imaging Video Bolometer Diagnostic in Plasma Devices
Pandya, Vinit
Pandya, Santosh P.
Patel, Ansh
Tahiliani, Kumudni
Ajay, Kumar
Plasma Physics
Instrumentation and Detectors
Infrared Imaging Video Bolometer (IRVB) measures total radiation power loss from plasma in 2 dimensions through a pinhole camera geometry. Where a free-standing thin metal foil act as a broad band absorber from Soft X-Rays to IR radiation. This configuration produces line-integrated signals with poloidal and toroidal coverage that must be inverted to recover the plasma radiation emissivity distribution on a poloidal cross-section. This study compares the tomographic methods implemented to IRVB brightness data reconstruction, namely Minimum Fisher Information (MFI), Phillips-Tikhonov regularization (PTR), and Maximum-Likelihood Expectation-Maximization (MLEM). The comparison assessment is organized around several aspects of bolometer measurements, namely viewing geometry configuration, non-negativity, robustness to noise, sensitivity to prior assumptions, convergence speed, and peak preservation. The present work also details the IRVB forward modelling process, construction of synthetic phantoms, and a validation of these reconstruction methods based on typical expected emissivity profiles, namely symmetric Gaussian distribution at plasma center, symmetric hollow-radiation emissivity profile, asymmetric radiation profiles across the poloidal cross-section, and divertor-side radiation emission profiles. The outcome is to emphasize the practical tradeoffs among reconstruction accuracy, numerical stability, and suitability for real-time or offline usage of these reconstruction methods, particularly for the IRVB camera viewing system.
title Comparison of Tomographic Reconstruction Algorithms for Infrared Imaging Video Bolometer Diagnostic in Plasma Devices
topic Plasma Physics
Instrumentation and Detectors
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.17459