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We consider the inverse source problem arising in thermo- and photo-acoustic tomography. It consists in reconstructing the initial pressure from the boundary measurements of the acoustic wave. Our goal is to extend versatile time reversal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-11-13 Linh V. Nguyen , Leonid Kunyansky

Photo-acoustic tomography is a newly developed hybrid imaging modality that combines a high-resolution modality with a high-contrast modality. We analyze the reconstruction of diffusion and absorption parameters in an elliptic equation and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-04 Jie Chen , Yang Yang

In this article, we consider the inverse source problem arising in photoacoustic tomography in elastic media. We show that the time reversal method, proposed by Tittelfitz [Inverse Problems 28.5 (2012): 055004], converges with the sharp…

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We present an alternative method for determining the sound velocity in atomic Bose-Einstein condensates, based on thermodynamic global variables. The total number of trapped atoms was as a function of temperature carefully studied across…

We consider image reconstruction in full-field photoacoustic tomography, where 2D projections of the full 3D acoustic pressure distribution at a given time T>0 are collected. We discuss existing results on the stability and uniqueness of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Markus Haltmeier , Gerhard Zangerl , Robert Nuster , Linh V. Nguyen

The development of efficient and accurate reconstruction methods is an important aspect of tomographic imaging. In this article, we address this issue for photoacoustic tomography. To this aim, we use models for acoustic wave propagation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-22 Markus Haltmeier , Richard Kowar , Linh V. Nguyen

In this paper, we study the photoacoustic tomography problem for which we seek to recover both the initial state of the pressure field and the wave speed of the medium from the knowledge of a single boundary measurement. The goal is to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-01 Sebastian Acosta

We study the inverse problem of determining both the source of a wave and its speed inside a medium from measurements of the solution of the wave equation on the boundary. This problem arises in photoacoustic and thermoacoustic tomography,…

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We study a holographic model of a relativistic quantum system with a global U(1) symmetry, at non-zero temperature and density. When the temperature falls below a critical value, we find a second-order superfluid phase transition with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 C. P. Herzog , P. K. Kovtun , D. T. Son

We consider the inverse problem of determining the initial states or the source term of a hyperbolic equation damped by some non-local time-fractional derivative. This framework is relevant to medical imaging such as thermoacoustic or…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-10 Xinchi Huang , Yavar Kian , Eric Soccorsi , Masahiro Yamamoto

The localization of sound sources by the human brain is computationally simulated from a neurobiological perspective. The simulation includes the neural representation of temporal differences in acoustic signals between the ipsilateral and…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2008-10-31 Nikesh S. Dattani

The formation of thermoacoustic shocks is studied in a fluid complex plasma. The thermoacoustic wave mode can be damped (or anti-damped) when the contribution from the thermoacoustic interaction is lower (or higher) than that due to the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-11-22 A. P. Misra , G. Banerjee

Ultrasound, alone or in concert with circulating microbubble contrast agents, has emerged as a promising modality for therapy and imaging of brain diseases. While this has become possible due to advancements in aberration correction…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-08 Scott Schoen , Costas D. Arvanitis

We study the fixed angle inverse scattering problem of determining a sound speed from scattering measurements corresponding to a single incident wave. The main result shows that a sound speed close to constant can be stably determined by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-25 Shiqi Ma , Leyter Potenciano-Machado , Mikko Salo

In this paper we propose an approach for \emph{simultaneous} identification of the \emph{absorption density} and the \emph{speed of sound} by photoacoustic measurements. Experimentally our approach can be realized with sliced photoacoustic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-09-28 Andreas Kirsch , Otmar Scherzer

Thermo- and photo- acoustic tomography require reconstructing initial acoustic pressure in a body from time series of pressure measured on a surface surrounding the body. For the classical case of free space wave propagation, various…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-23 B. Holman , L. Kunyansky

Recently, a novel measurement setup has been introduced to photoacoustic tomography, that collects data in the form of projections of the full 3D acoustic pressure distribution at a certain time instant. Existing imaging algorithms for this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-03 Gerhard Zangerl , Markus Haltmeier , Linh V. Nguyen , Robert Nuster

Almost all known image reconstruction algorithms for photoacoustic and thermoacoustic tomography assume that the acoustic waves leave the region of interest after a finite time. This assumption is reasonable if the reflections from the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-16 L. Kunyansky , B. Holman , B. T. Cox

Thermoacoustic oscillations have been one of the most exciting discoveries of the physics of fluids in the 19th century. Since its inception, scientists have formulated a comprehensive theoretical explanation of the basic phenomenon which…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-06-15 Haitian Hao , Carlo Scalo , Mihir Sen , Fabio Semperlotti