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When a plane electromagnetic wave impinges upon a diffraction grating or other periodic structures, reflected and transmitted waves propagate away from the structure in different radiation channels. A diffraction anomaly occurs when the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Zitao Mai , Ya Yan Lu

We propose a new algorithm to compute the X-ray transform of an image represented by unit (pixel/voxel) basis functions. The fundamental issue is equivalently calculating the intersection lengths of the ray with associated units. For any…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-28 Chong Chen , Runqian Wang , Chandrajit Bajaj , Ozan Öktem

This short note modifies a reconstruction method by the author (Comm. PDE, 45(9):1118-1133, 2020), for reconstructing piecewise constant conductivities in the Calder\'on problem (electrical impedance tomography). In the former paper, a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-08 Henrik Garde

Simple yet accurate results for radiative transfer in layered media with discontinuous refractive index are obtained by the method of K-integrals, originally developed for neutron transport analysis. These are certain weighted integrals…

Optics · Physics 2016-01-05 Adrian C Selden

I investigate the scattering properties of transformation devices as the traditional impedance matching criteria are altered. This is demonstrated using simple theory and augmented by numerical simulations that investigate the role of…

Optics · Physics 2018-05-04 Paul Kinsler

We study integral transforms mapping a function on the Euclidean space to the family of its integration on some hypersurfaces, that is, a function of hypersurfaces. The hypersurfaces are given by the graphs of functions with fixed axes of…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2020-06-08 Hiroyuki Chihara

An approach to visualize the accessible reciprocal space accounting the goniometer angles limitation and the resolution element in the reciprocal space is presented. The shapes of the accessible reciprocal space region for coplanar and…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-10-01 T. Ulyanenkova , A. Zhylik , A. Benediktovitch , A. Ulyanenkov

We prove the local invertibility, up to potential fields, and stability of the geodesic X-ray transform on tensor fields of order 1 and 2 near a strictly convex boundary point, on manifolds with boundary of dimension n>=3. We also present…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-10-21 Plamen Stefanov , Gunther Uhlmann , András Vasy

The light field reconstruction from the focal stack can be mathematically formulated as an ill-posed integral equation inversion problem. Although the previous research about this problem has made progress both in practice and theory, its…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-06 Duo Liu , Gangrong Qu , Shan Gao

The translation of an early (1957), Russian article on the development of x-ray computed tomography is provided. The article demonstrates a principle possibility of determining the local attenuation coefficient in every element of a…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2020-01-14 Alex Gustschin

Diffraction tomography aims to recover an object's scattering potential from measured wave fields. In the classical setting, the object is illuminated by plane waves from many directions, and the Fourier diffraction theorem provides a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Peter Elbau , Noemi Naujoks

X-ray Bragg coherent diffraction imaging has been demonstrated as a powerful three-dimensional (3D) microscopy approach for the investigation of sub-micrometer-scale crystalline particles. It is based on the measurement of a series of…

The path integral for the propagator is expanded into a perturbation series, which can be exactly summed in the case of $\delta$-function perturbations giving a closed expression for the (energy-dependent) Green function. Making the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 Christian Grosche

This work aims at the precise and efficient computation of the x-ray projection of an image represented by a linear combination of general shifted basis functions that typically overlap. We achieve this with a suitable adaptation of ray…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-15 Youssef Haouchat , Sepand Kashani , Philippe Thévenaz , Michael Unser

A path integral formulation is developed to study the spectrum of radiation from a perfectly reflecting (conducting) surface. It allows us to study arbitrary deformations in space and time. The spectrum is calculated to second order in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Faez Miri , Ramin Golestanian

A review of some of the author's results in the area of inverse scattering is given. The following topics are discussed: 1) Property $C$ and applications, 2) Stable inversion of fixed-energy 3D scattering data and its error estimate, 3)…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. G. Ramm

The use of strongly bent crystals in spectrometers for pulses of a hard x-ray free-electron laser is explored theoretically. Diffraction is calculated in both dynamical and kinematical theories. It is shown that diffraction can be treated…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-05-28 Vladimir Kaganer , Ilia Petrov , Liubov Samoylova

The purpose of this report is a study of the algebraic approach possibilities to reconstruct images. This approach is reduced to solution of the large system of linear algebraic equations. We also point out some possible further…

General Physics · Physics 2016-01-01 E. E. Libin , S. V. Chakhlov , D. Trinca

This paper describes a mixed direct-iterative method for boundary integral formulations of dielectric solvation models. We give an example for which a direct solution at thermal accuracy is nontrivial and for which Gauss-Seidel iteration…

chem-ph · Physics 2008-02-03 S. A. Corcelli , J. D. Kress , L. R. Pratt , G. J. Tawa

Serial crystallography experiments routinely produce thousands of diffraction patterns from crystals in random orientations. To turn this stream of images into a usable dataset, each pattern must be indexed before integration and merging…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Marc M Nasser , Frédéric Poitevin , Kevin M Dalton