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Inverse transport with isotropic time-harmonic sources

Analysis of PDEs 2011-10-17 v1

Abstract

This paper concerns the reconstruction of the scattering coefficient in a two-dimensional transport equation from angularly averaged measurements when the probing source is isotropic and time-harmonic. This is a practical setting in the medical imaging modality called Optical Tomography. As the modulation frequency of the source increases, we show that the reconstruction of the scattering coefficient improves. More precisely, as the frequency ω\omega increases, we show that all frequencies of the scattering coefficient lower than bb are reconstructed stably with an accuracy that improves as ω\omega increases and bb decreases. The proofs are based on an analysis of the single scattering singularities of the transport equation and on careful analyses of oscillatory integrals by stationary phase arguments.

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@article{arxiv.1110.3270,
  title  = {Inverse transport with isotropic time-harmonic sources},
  author = {Guillaume Bal and Francois Monard},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1110.3270},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

33 pages. To appear in SIMA (2011)

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