Optimized tomography methods for plasma emissivity reconstruction at the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak

T Odstrčil, T Pütterich, M Odstrčil, A Gude… - Review of Scientific …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
The soft X-ray (SXR) emission provides valuable insight into processes happening inside of
high-temperature plasmas. A standard method for deriving the local emissivity profiles of the …

Comparison of two regularization methods for soft x-ray tomography at Tore Supra

A Jardin, D Mazon, J Bielecki - Physica Scripta, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Soft x-ray (SXR) emission in the range 0.1–20 keV is widely used to obtain valuable
information on tokamak plasma physics, such as particle transport, magnetic configuration or …

[HTML][HTML] Implementing an X-ray tomography method for fusion devices

A Jardin, J Bielecki, D Mazon, Y Peysson, K Król… - The European Physical …, 2021 - Springer
In fusion devices, the X-ray plasma emissivity contains essential information on the
magnetohydrodynamic activity, the magnetic equilibrium and on the transport of impurities …

Modern numerical methods for plasma tomography optimisation

M Odstrcil, J Mlynar, T Odstrcil, B Alper, A Murari… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2012 - Elsevier
Tomography is a technique which is widely applied to fusion plasmas as it can provide
improved understanding of plasma emissivity distributions. It is challenging because of the …

Inversion techniques in the soft-X-ray tomography of fusion plasmas: toward real-time applications

J Mlynar, V Weinzettl, G Bonheure… - Fusion Science and …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
The tomography of fusion plasmas provides local information on plasma emissivity from line-
integrated measurements (projections). However, the corresponding inversion task presents …

Gaussian process tomography for soft X-ray spectroscopy at WEST without equilibrium information

T Wang, D Mazon, J Svensson, D Li, A Jardin… - Review of Scientific …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Gaussian process tomography (GPT) is a recently developed tomography method based on
the Bayesian probability theory [J. Svensson, JET Internal Report EFDA-JET-PR (11) 24 …

[HTML][HTML] Current research into applications of tomography for fusion diagnostics

J Mlynar, T Craciunescu, DR Ferreira, P Carvalho… - Journal of fusion …, 2019 - Springer
Retrieving spatial distribution of plasma emissivity from line integrated measurements on
tokamaks presents a challenging task due to ill-posedness of the tomography problem and …

Introducing minimum Fisher regularisation tomography to AXUV and soft x-ray diagnostic systems of the COMPASS tokamak

J Mlynar, M Imrisek, V Weinzettl, M Odstrcil… - Review of Scientific …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
The contribution focuses on plasma tomography via the minimum Fisher regularisation
(MFR) algorithm applied on data from the recently commissioned tomographic diagnostics …

Comparison of basis functions in soft x-ray tomography and observation of poloidal asymmetries in impurity density

LC Ingesson, H Chen, P Helander… - Plasma Physics and …, 2000 - iopscience.iop.org
Natural basis functions (NBF), also known as natural pixels in the literature, have been
applied in tomographic reconstructions of soft x-ray (SXR) measurements in the JET (Joint …

Investigation of the consistency of magnetic and soft x-ray plasma position measurements on TCV by means of a rapid tomographic inversion algorithm

J Mlynar, S Coda, A Degeling, BP Duval… - Plasma physics and …, 2003 - iopscience.iop.org
A rapid algorithm for tomographic inversion is presented that allows post-discharge
reconstruction of the soft x-ray (SXR) emissivity evolution in the Tokamak à configuration …