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Atmospheric tomography, the problem of reconstructing atmospheric turbulence profiles from wavefront sensor measurements, is an integral part of many adaptive optics systems used for enhancing the image quality of ground-based telescopes.…

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We consider an inverse scattering problem for time-harmonic acoustic or electromagnetic waves. The goal is to localize several small penetrable objects embedded inside an otherwise homogeneous background medium from observations of far…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-05 Roland Griesmaier , Christian Schmiedecke

The comparative study of two globally convergent numerical methods for acoustic tomography is carried out in two dimensions. These are the boundary control method and the quasi-reversibility method. The novelty is that in the latter a…

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In this paper we prove uniqueness and stability of reconstruction of two coefficients (sound speed and nonlinearity parameter) in the Jordan-Moore-Gibson-Thompson JMGT equation of nonlinear acoustics, relying on observations resulting from…

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We propose a new reverse time migration method for reconstructing extended obstacles in the planar waveguide using acoustic waves at a fixed frequency. We prove the resolution of the reconstruction method in terms of the aperture and the…

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We investigate the problem of recovering the initial displacement f for a solution u of a linear, isotropic, non-homogeneous elastic wave equation, given measurements of u on [0,T] x \partial \Omega, where \Omega\subset\R^3 is some bounded…

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Turbulence-degraded image frames are distorted by both turbulent deformations and space-time-varying blurs. To suppress these effects, we propose a multi-frame reconstruction scheme to recover a latent image from the observed image…

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We consider the resolution of the single frequency reverse time migration (RTM) method for extended targets without the assumption of the validation of geometric optics approximation. The resolution analysis, which applies in both…

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In this paper we study the inverse problem of determining the residual stress in Man's model using tomographic data. Theoretically, the tomographic data is obtained at zero approximation of geometrical optics for Man's residual stress…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-30 Vladimir Sharafutdinov , Jenn-Nan Wang

Ultrasound reflection tomography is widely used to image large complex specimens that are only accessible from a single side, such as well systems and nuclear power plant containment walls. Typical methods for inverting the measurement rely…

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We describe a method for recovering the irradiance underlying a collection of images corrupted by atmospheric turbulence. Since supervised data is often technically impossible to obtain, assumptions and biases have to be imposed to solve…

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In this paper we the formulation of inverse problems as constrained minimization problems and their iterative solution by gradient or Newton type. We carry out a convergence analysis in the sense of regularization methods and discuss…

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This article investigates adaptive mesh refinement procedures for the time-domain wave equation with Neumann boundary conditions, formulated as an equivalent hypersingular boundary integral equation. Space-adaptive and time-adaptive…

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The advent of novel nonlinear materials has stirred unprecedented interest in exploring the use of temporal inhomogeneities to achieve novel forms of wave control, amidst the greater vision of engineering metamaterials across both space and…

Optics · Physics 2022-11-24 Emanuele Galiffi , Shixiong Yin , Andrea Alù

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 present a novel approach to transcranial ultrasound computed tomography that utilizes normalizing flows to improve the speed of imaging and provide Bayesian uncertainty quantification. Our method combines physics-informed methods and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-08 Rafael Orozco , Mathias Louboutin , Ali Siahkoohi , Gabrio Rizzuti , Tristan van Leeuwen , Felix Herrmann

This paper is concerned with the reconstruction of the shape of an acoustic obstacle. Based on the use of the tapered waves with very narrow widths illuminating the obstacle, the boundary of the obstacle is reconstructed by a direct imaging…

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