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Our goal is to reconstruct tomographic images with few measurements and a low signal-to-noise ratio. In clinical imaging, this helps to improve patient comfort and reduce radiation exposure. As quantum computing advances, we propose to use…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-17 Merlin A. Nau , A. Hans Vija , Wesley Gohn , Maximilian P. Reymann , Andreas K. Maier

Photoacoustic tomography is a hybrid biomedical technology, which combines the advantages of acoustic and optical imaging. However, for the conventional image reconstruction method, the image quality is affected obviously by artifacts under…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-26 Bowei Yao , Yi Zeng , Haizhao Dai , Qing Wu , Youshen Xiao , Fei Gao , Yuyao Zhang , Jingyi Yu , Xiran Cai

Objective:Optoacoustic (photoacoustic) tomography is aimed at reconstructing maps of the initial pressure rise induced by the absorption of light pulses in tissue. In practice, due to inaccurate assumptions in the forward model, noise and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-01-21 Jaya Prakash , Subhamoy Mandal , Daniel Razansky , Vasilis Ntziachristos

The paper surveys recent progress in establishing uniqueness and developing inversion formulas and algorithms for the thermoacoustic tomography. In mathematical terms, one deals with a rather special inverse problem for the wave equation.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-02-02 M. Agranovsky , P. Kuchment , L. Kunyansky

In most photoacoustic (PA) measurements, variations in speed-of-sound (SOS) of the subject are neglected under the assumption of acoustic homogeneity. Biological tissue with spatially heterogeneous SOS cannot be accurately reconstructed…

Two-photon absorption photoacoustic tomography (TP-PAT) is a recent hybrid imaging modality that aims at reconstructing two-photon absorption properties of heterogeneous media from measured ultrasound signals generated by the photoacoustic…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 Patrick Bardsley , Kui Ren , Rongting Zhang

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

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

In the last five decades, iterative phase retrieval methods draw large amount of interest across the research community as a non-interferometric approach to recover quantitative phase distributions from one (or more) intensity measurement.…

Optics · Physics 2020-07-21 Nathaniel Hai , Joseph Rosen

Computed tomography (CT) has been developed as a non-destructive technique for observing minute internal images of samples. It has been difficult to obtain photo-realistic (clean or clear) CT images due to various unwanted artifacts…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-12 Kyungtaek Jun

The development of accurate and efficient image reconstruction algorithms is a central aspect of quantitative photoacoustic tomography (QPAT). In this paper, we address this issues for multi-source QPAT using the radiative transfer equation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-29 Simon Rabanser , Lukas Neumann , Markus Haltmeier

Fourier reconstruction algorithms significantly outperform conventional back-projection algorithms in terms of computation time. In photoacoustic imaging, these methods require interpolation in the Fourier space domain, which creates…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-17 M. Haltmeier , O. Scherzer , G. Zangerl

Photoacoustic tomography seeks to reconstruct an acoustic initial pressure distribution from the measurement of the ultrasound waveforms. Conventional methods assume a-prior knowledge of the sound speed distribution, which practically is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-16 Hongming Shan , Christopher Wiedeman , Ge Wang , Yang Yang

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

Photo-acoustic tomography (PAT) aims to leverage the photo-acoustic coupling between optical absorption of light sources and ultrasound (US) emission to obtain high contrast reconstructions of optical parameters with the high resolution of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-21 Guillaume Bal , Amir Moradifam

In this paper we consider a mathematical model for photoacoustic imaging which takes into account attenuation due to thermodynamic dissipation. The propagation of acoustic (compressional) waves is governed by a scalar wave equation coupled…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-10-12 Sebastian Acosta , Carlos Montalto

This paper presents a numerical study on a fast marching method based back projection reconstruction algorithm for photoacoustic tomography in heterogeneous media. Transcranial imaging is used here as a case study. To correct for the phase…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-01-21 Tianren Wang , Yun Jing

In this paper we study the problem of photoacoustic inversion in a weakly attenuating medium. We present explicit reconstruction formulas in such media and show that the inversion based on such formulas is moderately ill--posed. Moreover,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-17 Otmar Scherzer , Cong Shi

The inverse source problem arising in photoacoustic tomography and in several other coupled-physics modalities is frequently solved by iterative algorithms. Such algorithms are based on the minimization of a certain cost functional. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-29 Andreas Hauptmann , Leonid Kunyansky , Jenni Poimala

This paper proposes quantum image reconstruction. Input-triggered selection of an image among many stored ones, and its reconstruction if the input is occluded or noisy, has been simulated by a computer program implementable in a real…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Mitja Perus , Horst Bischof , Chu Kiong Loo