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This work considers a nonlinear inverse source problem in a coupled diffusion equation from the terminal observation. Theoretically, under some conditions on problem data, we build the uniqueness theorem for this inverse problem and show…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Chunlong Sun , Wenlong Zhang , Zhidong Zhang

We consider the acousto-optic effect in a random medium. We derive the radiative transport equations that describe the propagation of multiply-scattered light in a medium whose dielectric permittivity is modulated by an acoustic wave. Using…

Optics · Physics 2017-03-22 Jeremy G. Hoskins , John C. Schotland

We consider the two dimensional quantitative imaging problem of recovering a radiative source inside an absorbing and scattering medium from knowledge of the outgoing radiation measured at the boundary. The medium has an anisotropic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-21 Hiroshi Fujiwara , Kamran Sadiq , Alexandru Tamasan

To recover the three dimensional (3D) volumetric distribution of matter in an object, images of the object are captured from multiple directions and locations. Using these images tomographic computations extract the distribution. In highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Vadim Holodovsky , Yoav Y. Schechner , Anat Levin , Aviad Levis , Amit Aides

We consider the problem of optical tomographic imaging in the mesoscopic regime where the photon mean free path is of order of the system size. Within the accuracy of the single-scattering approximation to the radiative transport equation,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2009-04-29 Lucia Florescu , John C. Schotland , Vadim A. Markel

Passive imaging involves recording waves generated by uncontrolled, random sources and utilizing correlations of such waves to image the medium through which they propagate. In this paper, we focus on passive inverse obstacle scattering…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-06 Thorsten Hohage , Meng Liu

For the first time, we develop in this paper the globally convergent convexification numerical method for a Coefficient Inverse Problem for the 3D Helmholtz equation for the case when the backscattering data are generated by a point source…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-14 Vo Anh Khoa , Michael Victor Klibanov , Loc Hoang Nguyen

We establish results for the injectivity and injectivity modulo gauge of certain inverse source problems in transport on a simply connected domain with variable index of refraction inducing a 'simple geometry'. The model given by radiative…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-20 Guillaume Bal , François Monard

We characterize the non-uniqueness in the inverse problem for the stationary transport model, in which the absorption "a" and the scattering coefficient "k" are to be recovered from the albedo operator. We show that "gauge equivalent" pairs…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-09-16 Plamen Stefanov , Alexandru Tamasan

We propose a method to reconstruct the density of a luminescent source in a highly-scattering medium from ultrasound modulated optical measurements. Our approach is based on the solution to a hybrid inverse source problem for the diffusion…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-17 Guillaume Bal , John C Schotland

We study the reconstruction of the attenuation and absorption coefficients in a stationary linear transport equation from knowledge of albedo operator in dimension $n\geq 3$ on a Riemannian manifold in the presence of a magnetic field. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-10-01 Yernat M. Assylbekov , Yang Yang

We consider the inverse problem of reconstructing inhomogeneities by performing a finite number of scattering measurements of acoustic type in the time-harmonic setting. We set up the reconstruction as a fully discrete variational problem…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Daniela Di Donato , Luca Rondi

We study an inverse problem for the wave equation where localized wave sources in random scattering media are to be determined from time resolved measurements of the waves at an array of receivers. The sources are far from the array, so the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-07-18 Liliana Borcea , Ilker Kocyigit

Magneto-acousto-electric tomography (MAET) combines ultrasound with a static magnetic field to infer the electrical conductivity of an object. In this paper, we present a rigorous quasi-static mathematical model for MAET with magnetic field…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Lingyun Qiu , Siqin Zheng

Inverse scattering problems have many important applications. In this paper, given limited aperture data, we propose a Bayesian method for the inverse acoustic scattering to reconstruct the shape of an obstacle. The inverse problem is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-30 Zhaoxiang Li , Zhiliang Deng , Jiguang Sun

We present a method to reconstruct the dielectric susceptibility (scattering potential) of an inhomogeneous scattering medium, based on the solution to the inverse scattering problem with internal sources. We employ the theory of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-18 Yakun Dong , Kamran Sadiq , Otmar Scherzer , John C. Schotland

The solution of a multi-frequency 1d inverse medium problem consists of recovering the refractive index of a medium from measurements of the scattered waves for multiple frequencies. In this paper, rigorous stability estimates are derived…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-31 Gang Bao , Faouzi Triki

This paper is concerned with the inverse problem to recover the scalar, complex-valued refractive index of a medium from measurements of scattered time-harmonic electromagnetic waves at a fixed frequency. The main results are two…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-09 Frederic Weidling , Thorsten Hohage

This paper is concerned with the inverse time-harmonic elastic scattering problem of recovering unbounded rough surfaces in two dimensions. We assume that elastic plane waves with different directions are incident onto a rigid rough surface…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-09 Guanghui Hu , Xiaoli Liu , Bo Zhang , Haiwen Zhang

We consider the inverse hyperbolic problem of recovering all spatial dependent coefficients, which are the wave speed, the damping coefficient, potential coefficient and gradient coefficient, in a second-order hyperbolic equation defined on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-11 Shitao Liu , Antonio Pierrottet , Scott Scruggs