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The radiative transfer equation (RTE) is a cornerstone for describing the propagation of electromagnetic radiation in a medium, with applications spanning atmospheric science, astrophysics, remote sensing, and biomedical optics. Despite its…

Optics · Physics 2024-01-19 Vladimir Allaxwerdian , Dmitry V. Naumov

We derive radiative transport equations for solutions of a Schr\"odinger equation in a periodic structure with small random inhomogeneities. We use systematically the Wigner transform and the Bloch wave expansion. The streaming part of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Guillaume Bal , Albert Fannjiang , George Papanicolaou , Leonid Ryzhik

A Coefficient Inverse Problem for the radiative transport equation is considered. The globally convergent numerical method, the so-called convexification, is developed. For the first time, the viscosity solution is considered for a boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-17 Michael V. Klibanov , Jingzhi Li , Zhipeng Yang

For charged particle transport the linear Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) turns out to be a partial hyper-singular integro-differential operator. This is due to the fact that the related differential cross-sections…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-15 Jouko Tervo

The criticality problem in nuclear engineering asks for the principal eigenpair of a Boltzmann operator describing neutron transport in a reactor core. Being able to reliably design, and control such reactors requires assessing these…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Wolfgang Dahmen , Olga Mula

In this article, for the radiative transport equation, we study inverse problems of determining a time independent scattering coefficient or total attenuation by boundary data on the complementary sub-boundary after making one time input of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-07-30 Manabu Machida , Masahiro Yamamoto

In this paper we develop a time reversal method for the radiative transport equation to solve two problems: an inverse problem for the recovery of an initial condition from boundary measurements, and the exact boundary controllability of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-08-06 Sebastian Acosta

We propose a method to reconstruct the density of an optical 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 radiative…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-23 Guillaume Bal , Francis J. Chung , John C. Schotland

We derive from first principles a one-way radiative transfer equation for the wave intensity resolved over directions (Wigner transform of the wave field) in random media. It is an initial value problem with excitation from a source which…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-02-17 Liliana Borcea , Josselin Garnier

The first globally convergent numerical method for a Coefficient Inverse Problem (CIP) for the Riemannian Radiative Transfer Equation (RRTE) is constructed. This is a version of the so-called \textquotedblleft convexification" method, which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-13 Michael V. Klibanov , Jingzhi Li , Loc H. Nguyen , Vladimir G. Romanov , Zhipeng Yang

We consider the inverse problem of reconstructing the scattering and absorption coefficients using boundary measurements for a time dependent radiative transfer equation (RTE). As the measurement is mostly polluted by errors, both…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-11 Ke Chen , Qin Li , Li Wang

The inverse radiative transfer problem finds broad applications in medical imaging, atmospheric science, astronomy, and many other areas. This problem intends to recover the optical properties, denoted as absorption and scattering…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-08 Qin Li , Ruiwen Shu , Li Wang

A method for the fast and accurate solution of the radiative transfer equation in plane-parallel media with coherent isotropic scattering is presented. This largely analytical approach uses the formalism of meromorphic functions in order to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. V. Efimov , N. V. Kryzhevoi , W. von Waldenfels , R. Wehrse

A new numerical method to solve an inverse source problem for the radiative transfer equation involving the absorption and scattering terms, with incomplete data, is proposed. No restrictive assumption on those absorption and scattering…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-02 Alexey V. Smirnov , Michael V. Klibanov , Loc H. Nguyen

We consider the inverse problem of reconstructing the optical parameters of the radiative transfer equation (RTE) from boundary measurements in the diffusion limit. In the diffusive regime (the Knudsen number $\mathsf{Kn}\ll 1$), the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-08 Ru-Yu Lai , Qin Li , Gunther Uhlmann

Biomedical optical imaging has a possibility of a comprehensive diagnosis of thyroid cancer in conjunction with ultrasound imaging. For improvement of the optical imaging, this study develops a higher order scheme for solving the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-03-15 Hiroyuki Fujii , Shinpei Okawa , Ken Nadamoto , Eiji Okada , Yukio Yamada , Yoko Hoshi , Masao Watanabe

Many naturally-occuring models in the sciences are well-approximated by simplified models, using multiscale techniques. In such settings it is natural to ask about the relationship between inverse problems defined by the original problem…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-28 Kit Newton , Qin Li , Andrew Stuart

We study the direct and an inverse source problem for the radiative transfer equation arising in optical molecular imaging. We show that for generic absorption and scattering coefficients, the direct problem is well-posed and the inverse…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-03-31 Plamen Stefanov , Gunther Uhlmann

Radiative transfer in absorbing-scattering media requires solving a transport equation across a spectral domain with 10^5 - 10^6 molecular absorption lines. Line-by-line (LBL) computation is prohibitively expensive, while existing…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-02-23 Y. Sungtaek Ju

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