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In photoacoustic tomography (PAT), a hybrid imaging modality that is based on the acoustic detection of optical absorption from biological tissue exposed to a pulsed laser, a short pulse laser generates an initial pressure proportional to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-27 Sunghwan Moon , Anwesa Dey , Souvik Roy

This work explored an element-wise approach to model transcranial MRI-guided focused ultrasound (TcMRgFUS) thermal ablation, a noninvasive approach to neurosurgery. Each element of the phased array transducer was simulated individually and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-01-01 Nathan McDannold , P. Jason White , Rees Cosgrove

We consider the acoustic source imaging problems using multiple frequency data. Using the data of one observation direction/point, we prove that some information (size and location) of the source support can be recovered. A non-iterative…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-08 Ala Alzaalig , Guanghui Hu , Xiaodong Liu , Jiguang Sun

Photoacoustic (PA) image reconstruction involves acoustic inversion that necessitates the specification of the speed of sound (SoS) within the medium of propagation. Due to the lack of information on the spatial distribution of the SoS…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-05 Mengjie Shi , Tom Vercauteren , Wenfeng Xia

Computational biomechanics of the brain for neurosurgery is an emerging area of research recently gaining in importance and practical applications. This review paper presents the contributions of the Intelligent Systems for Medicine…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-04-03 K. Miller , G. R. Joldes , G. Bourantas , S. K. Warfield , D. E. Hyde , R. Kikinis , A. Wittek

The images and sounds that we perceive undergo subtle but geometrically consistent changes as we rotate our heads. In this paper, we use these cues to solve a problem we call Sound Localization from Motion (SLfM): jointly estimating camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Ziyang Chen , Shengyi Qian , Andrew Owens

Recently, we witnessed a tremendous effort to conquer the realm of acoustics as a possible playground to test with sound waves topologically protected wave propagation. Acoustics differ substantially from photonic and electronic systems…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-14 Xiujuan Zhang , Meng Xiao , Ying Cheng , Ming-Hui Lu , Johan Christensen

In ultrasound beamforming, focusing time delays are typically computed with a spatially constant speed-of-sound (SoS) assumption. A mismatch between beamforming and true medium SoS then leads to aberration artifacts. Other imaging…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-27 Xenia Augustin , Lin Zhang , Orcun Goksel

The thermalization of quark-gluon plasma created in heavy-ion collisions is crucial for understanding its behavior as a relativistic fluid and the thermodynamic properties of the Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). This study investigates the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-09-19 Yu-Shan Mu , Jing-An Sun , Li Yan , Xu-Guang Huang

Computed ultrasound tomography in echo mode generates maps of tissue speed of sound (SoS) from the shift of echoes when detected under varying steering angles. It solves a linearized inverse problem that requires regularization to…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Parisa Salemi Yolgunlu , Jules Blom , Naiara Korta Martiartu , Michael Jaeger

Computational models of acoustic wave propagation are frequently used in transcranial ultrasound therapy, for example, to calculate the intracranial pressure field or to calculate phase delays to correct for skull distortions. To allow…

In this paper we consider the problem of acoustic inversion in the context of the optoacoustic tomography image reconstruction problem. By leveraging the ability of the recently proposed diffusion models for image generative tasks among…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-17 M. G. González , M. Vera , A. Dreszman , L. J. Rey Vega

The importance of ultrasound is well established in the imaging of human tissue. In order to enhance image quality by exploiting nonlinear effects, recently techniques such as harmonic imaging and nonlinearity parameter tomography have been…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-13 Barbara Kaltenbacher

Tomographic reconstruction, despite its revolutionary impact on a wide range of applications, suffers from its ill-posed nature in that there is no unique solution because of limited and noisy measurements. Therefore, in the absence of…

Applications · Statistics 2023-04-10 Agnimitra Dasgupta , Carlo Graziani , Zichao Wendy Di

Using gauge theory/gravity duality we study sound wave propagation in strongly coupled non-conformal gauge theory plasma. We compute the speed of sound and the bulk viscosity of N=2^* supersymmetric SU(N_c) Yang-Mills plasma at a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Paolo Benincasa , Alex Buchel , Andrei O. Starinets

The holographic dual of a finite-temperature gauge theory with a small number of flavours typically contains D-brane probes in a black hole background. We have recently shown that these systems undergo a first order phase transition…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-06 David Mateos , Robert C. Myers , Rowan M. Thomson

Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is a rapidly-evolving medical imaging modality that combines optical absorption contrast with ultrasound imaging depth. One challenge in PAT is image reconstruction with inadequate acoustic signals due to…

Most ultrasound (US) imaging techniques use spatially-constant speed-of-sound (SoS) values for beamforming. Having a discrepancy between the actual and used SoS value leads to aberration artifacts, e.g., reducing the image resolution, which…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-08-18 Can Deniz Bezek , Mert Bilgin , Lin Zhang , Orcun Goksel

It is shown that thermal fluctuations present in a simple non-degenerate relativistic fluid satisfy a wave equation in the Euler regime. The characteristic propagation speeds are calculated and the classical expression for the speed of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-05-19 A. Sandoval-Villalbazo , D. Brun

We study the inverse source problem in photoacoustic tomography (PAT) for mixed data, which denote a weighted linear combination of the acoustic pressure and its normal derivative on an observation surface. We consider in particular the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-06 Florian Dreier , Markus Haltmeier