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Objective. While ultrasound is largely established for use in diagnostic imaging and heating therapies, its application for neuromodulation is relatively new and not well understood. The objective of the present study was to investigate…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2015-03-09 Jerel K. Mueller , Wynn Legon , William J. Tyler

Image reconstruction in photoacoustic tomography relies on an accurate knowledge of the speed of sound in the target. However, the speed of sound distribution is not generally known, which may result in artefacts in the reconstructed…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 Miika Suhonen , Felix Lucka , Aki Pulkkinen , Simon Arridge , Ben Cox , Tanja Tarvainen

We propose three fast algorithms for solving the inverse problem of the thermoacoustic tomography corresponding to certain acquisition geometries. Two of these methods are designed to process the measurements done with point-like detectors…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-02-08 Leonid Kunyansky

We study the propagation of a density wave in a magnetically trapped Bose-Einstein condensate at finite temperatures. The thermal cloud is in the hydrodynamic regime and the system is therefore described by the two-fluid model. A…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-14 R. Meppelink , S. B. Koller , P. van der Straten

The reconstruction task in photoacoustic tomography can vary a lot depending on measured targets, geometry, and especially the quantity we want to recover. Specifically, as the signal is generated due to the coupling of light and sound by…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-11-28 Andreas Hauptmann , Tanja Tarvainen

Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is a non-invasive imaging modality that requires recovering the initial data of the wave equation from certain measurements of the solution outside the object. In the standard PAT measurement setup, the used…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-07 Linh V. Nguyen , Markus Haltmeier , Richard Kowar , Ngoc Do

We use thermal noise induced currents to image the real and imaginary parts of the conductivity of a body. Covariances of the thermal noise currents measured at a few electrodes are shown to be related to a deterministic problem. We use the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-10 Trent DeGiovanni , Fernando Guevara Vasquez , China Mauck

An intriguing possibility that can address pathologies in both early universe cosmology (i.e. the horizon problem) and quantum gravity (i.e. non-renormalizability), is that particles at very high energies and/or temperatures could propagate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-05 Abhineet Agarwal , Niayesh Afshordi

Traumatic brain injury studies on the living human brain are experimentally infeasible. We present a simulation approach that models ultrasound propagation in the human brain while it is moving due to the complex shear shock wave…

We show that in a general class of strongly interacting theories at high temperatures the speed of sound approaches the conformal value c_s^2=1/3 universally from_below_. This class includes theories holographically dual to a theory of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-16 Paul M. Hohler , Mikhail A. Stephanov

In photoacoustic imaging the objective is to determine the optical properties of biological tissue from boundary measurement of the generated acoustic wave. Here, we propose a restriction to piecewise constant media parameters. Precisely we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-09 Yavar Kian , Faouzi Triki

We consider the problem of thermoacoustic tomography (TAT), in which one needs to reconstruct the initial value of a solution of the wave equation from its value on an observation surface. We show that if some geometric rays for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-12-15 Linh V. Nguyen

We present the results of numerical testing on determination of the sound speed $c$ in the acoustic equation $u_{tt}-c^2\Delta u=0$ by the ${\it boundary}$ ${control}$ ${method}$. The inverse data is a response operator (a hyperbolic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-25 M. I. Belishev , I. B. Ivanov , I. V. Kubyshkin , V. S. Semenov

ThermoAcoustic Tomography (TAT) is a promising, non invasive, medical imaging technique whose inverse problem can be formulated as an initial condition reconstruction. In this paper, we introduce a new algorithm originally designed to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-12-06 Xavier Bonnefond , Sébastien Marinesque

Thermo-acoustic tomography is a non-invasive medical imaging technique, constituting a precise and cheap alternative to X-imaging. The principle is to excite a body to reconstruct with a pulse inducing an inhomogeneous heating and therefore…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-24 Maïtine Bergounioux , Elie Bretin , Yannick Privat

Thermal tomography is an imaging technique for deducing information about the internal structure of a physical body from temperature measurements on its boundary. This work considers time-dependent thermal tomography modeled by a parabolic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-07-25 Nuutti Hyvönen , Lauri Mustonen

This paper aims to mathematically advance the field of quantitative thermo-acoustic imaging. Given several electromagnetic data sets, we establish for the first time an analytical formula for reconstructing the absorption coefficient from…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-03-25 Habib Ammari , Josselin Garnier , Wenjia Jing , Loc Nguyen

Medical ultrasound imaging is the most widespread real-time non-invasive imaging system and its formulation comprises signal transmission, signal reception, and image formation. Ultrasound signal transmission modelling has been formalized…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-09 Chiara Razzetta , Valentina Candiani , Marco Crocco , Federico Benvenuto

Computational neuroimaging involves analyzing brain images or signals to provide mechanistic insights and predictive tools for human cognition and behavior. While diffusion models have shown stability and high-quality generation in natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Haokai Zhao , Haowei Lou , Lina Yao , Wei Peng , Ehsan Adeli , Kilian M Pohl , Yu Zhang

This paper provides a mathematical analysis of ultrafast ultrasound imaging. This newly emerging modality for biomedical imaging uses plane waves instead of focused waves in order to achieve very high frame rates. We derive the point spread…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-09 Giovanni S. Alberti , Habib Ammari , Francisco Romero , Timothée Wintz