In this work, we develop a probabilistic estimator for the voltage-to-current
map arising in electrical impedance tomography. This novel so-called partially
reflecting random walk on spheres estimator enables Monte Carlo methods to
compute the voltage-to-current map in an embarrassingly parallel manner, which
is an important issue with regard to the corresponding inverse problem. Our
method uses the well-known random walk on spheres algorithm inside subdomains
where the diffusion coefficient is constant and employs replacement techniques
motivated by finite difference discretization to deal with both mixed boundary
conditions and interface transmission conditions. We analyze the global bias
and the variance of the new estimator both theoretically and experimentally. In
a second step, the variance is considerably reduced via a novel control variate
conditional sampling technique