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Photoacoustic tomography is a hybrid imaging technique that combines high optical tissue contrast with high ultrasound resolution. Direct reconstruction methods such as filtered backprojection, time reversal and least squares suffer from…

Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is an emerging imaging modality that aims at measuring the high-contrast optical properties of tissues by means of high-resolution ultrasonic measurements. The interaction between these two types of waves is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-27 Giovanni S. Alberti , Paolo Campodonico , Matteo Santacesaria

In this paper, we consider an inverse problem to determine a semilinear term of a parabolic equation from a single boundary measurement of Neumann type. For this problem, a reconstruction algorithm is established by the spectral…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-23 Wuqing Ning , Xue Qin , Yunxia Shang

We consider an inverse problem of recovering a parameter appearing in all levels in a second-order hyperbolic equation from a single boundary measurement. The model is motivated from applications in photoacoustic tomography when one seeks…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-26 Shitao Liu , Gunther Uhlmann , Yang Yang

This work describes and analyzes the domain derivative for a time-dependent acoustic scattering problem. We study the nonlinear operator that maps a sound-soft scattering object to the solution of the time-dependent wave equation evaluated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-27 Marvin Knöller , Jörg Nick

This study formally adapts the time-domain linear sampling method (TLSM) for ultrasonic imaging of stationary and evolving fractures in safety-critical components. The TLSM indicator is then applied to the laboratory test data of [22, 18]…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-16 Xiaoli Liu , Jian Song , Fatemeh Pourahmadian , Houssem Haddar

We present a novel method for reconstructing the thermal conductivity coefficient in 1D and 2D heat equations using moving sensors that dynamically traverse the domain to record sparse and noisy temperature measurements. We significantly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-31 Guangting Yu , Shiwei Lan , Kookjin Lee , Alex Mahalov

We present a non-iterative algorithm to reconstruct the isotropic acoustic wave speed from the measurement of the Neumann-to-Dirichlet map. The algorithm is designed based on the boundary control method and involves only computations that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-03 Tianyu Yang , Yang Yang

We consider an inverse problem arising in nonlinear ultrasound imaging. The propagation of ultrasound waves is modeled by a quasilinear wave equation. We make measurements at the boundary of the medium encoded in the Dirichlet-to-Neumann…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-08 Gunther Uhlmann , Yang Zhang

We study the wave equation in a bounded domain or on a compact Riemannian manifold with boundary. Assume that we are given the hyperbolic Neumann-to-Dirichlet map on the boundary corresponding to physical boundary measurements. We consider…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-08-17 Matias Dahl , Anna Kirpichnikova , Matti Lassas

A time-domain numerical code based on the constitutive relations of nonlinear acoustics for simulating ultrasound propagation is presented. To model frequency power law attenuation, such as observed in biological media, multiple relaxation…

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.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-06 Lukas Weissinger , Simon Hubmer , Bernadett Stadler , Ronny Ramlau

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…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Zhiming Chen , Guanghui Huang

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

We analyze the time reversal of waves in a turbulent medium using the parabolic Markovian model. We prove that the time reversal resolution can be a nonlinear function of the wavelength and independent of the aperture. We establish a…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-11 Albert Fannjiang , Knut Solna

This paper proposes a novel approach to reconstruct changes in a target conductivity from electrical impedance tomography measurements. As in the conventional difference imaging, the reconstruction of the conductivity change is based on…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-03-27 Dong Liu , Ville Kolehmainen , Samuli Siltanen , Anne maria Laukkanen , Aku Seppanen

Optoacoustic tomography (OAT), also known as photoacoustic tomography, is a rapidly emerging hybrid imaging technique that possesses great potential for a wide range of biomedical imaging applications. In OAT, a laser is employed to…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Yang Lou , Kun Wang , Alexander. A. Oraevsky , Mark. A. Anastasio

The framework of ultrasound computed tomography (USCT) has recently re-emerged as a powerful, safe and operator-independent way to image the breast. State of the art image reconstruction methods are performed with iterative techniques based…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-08-13 Luca A. Forte

With the development of terahertz time-domain spectroscopy, methods have been proposed to precisely estimate the thickness, refractive index, and attenuation coefficient of a sample. In this article, we propose a new method to compute these…

Beamforming in ultrasound imaging has significant impact on the quality of the final image, controlling its resolution and contrast. Despite its low spatial resolution and contrast, delay-and-sum is still extensively used nowadays in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-20 Teodora Szasz , Adrian Basarab , Denis Kouamé