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We study the inverse problem in Optical Tomography of determining the optical properties of a medium $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^n$, with $n\geq 3$, under the so-called diffusion approximation. We consider the time-harmonic case where $\Omega$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-11 Olga Doeva , Romina Gaburro , William R. B. Lionheart , Clifford J. Nolan

This paper aims to mathematically advance the field of quantitative thermo-acoustic imaging. Given several electromagnetic data sets, we establish for the first time an analytical formula for reconstructing the absorption coefficient from…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-03-25 Habib Ammari , Josselin Garnier , Wenjia Jing , Loc Nguyen

Imaging point sources in heterogeneous environments from boundary or far-field measurements has been extensively studied in the past. In most existing results, the environment, represented by the refractive index function in the model…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Kui Ren , Yimin Zhong

In this article, we study the stability in the inverse problem of determining the time-dependent convection term and density coefficient appearing in the convection-diffusion equation, from partial boundary measurements. For dimension…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-19 Soumen Senapati , Manmohan Vashisth

In this paper we consider the linearized problem of recovering both the sound speed and the thermal absorption arising in thermoacoustic and photoacoustic tomography. We show that the problem is unstable in any scale of Sobolev spaces.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-11-28 Plamen Stefanov , Gunther Uhlmann

Quantitative Photoacoustic tomography (QPAT) is an emerging medical imaging modality which offers the possibility of combining the high resolution of the acoustic waves and large contrast of optical waves by quantifying the molecular…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-30 Adriano De Cezaro , Fabiana Travessini De Cezaro

This paper considers the problem of robust stability for a class of uncertain nonlinear quantum systems subject to unknown perturbations in the system Hamiltonian. The case of a nominal linear quantum system is considered with non-quadratic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-26 Ian R. Petersen

We consider the mathematical model of photoacoustic and thermoacoustic tomography in media with a variable sound speed. When the sound speed is known, the explicit reconstruction formula by P. Stefanov and G. Uhlmann (Inverse Problems,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-07-08 Lauri Oksanen , Gunther Uhlmann

A framework for reconstruction of optical diffusion and absorption coefficients in quantitative photoacoustic tomography is presented. This framework is based on a Tikhonov-type functional with a regularization term promoting sparsity of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-01 Anwesa Dey , Alfio Borzi , Souvik Roy

The objective of quantitative photoacoustic tomography (QPAT) is to reconstruct optical and thermodynamic properties of heterogeneous media from data of absorbed energy distribution inside the media. There have been extensive theoretical…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-10-08 Alexander V. Mamonov , Kui Ren

In this paper, we investigate an inverse random source problem concerned with recovering the strength of a random, uncorrelated acoustic source from correlation measurements of emitted time-harmonic acoustic waves. Such problems arise in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Philipp Mickan , Thorsten Hohage

The development of efficient and accurate image reconstruction algorithms is one of the cornerstones of computed tomography. Existing algorithms for quantitative photoacoustic tomography currently operate in a two-stage procedure: First an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Markus Haltmeier , Lukas Neumann , Simon Rabanser

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

Motivated by applications in imaging nonlinear optical absorption by photoacoustic tomography (PAT), we study in this work inverse coefficient problems for a semilinear radiative transport equation and its diffusion approximation with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-20 Ru-Yu Lai , Kui Ren , Ting Zhou

We study the notion of stochastic stability with respect to diffusive perturbations for flows with smooth invariant measures. We investigate the question fully for non-singular flows on the circle. We also show that volume-preserving flows…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2011-12-02 Sergiu Aizicovici , Todd Young

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

The paper is concerned with an inverse point source problem for the Helmholtz equation. It consists of recovering the locations and amplitudes of a finite number of radiative point sources inside a given inhomogeneous medium from the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-01 Gang Bao , Yuantong Liu , Faouzi Triki

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 article addresses the inverse problem of simultaneously recovering both the wave speed coefficient and an unknown initial condition (acting as the source) for the multidimensional wave equation from a single passive boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Yavar Kian , Hongyu Liu

In this paper, we study the photoacoustic tomography problem for which we seek to recover both the initial state of the pressure field and the wave speed of the medium from the knowledge of a single boundary measurement. The goal is to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-01 Sebastian Acosta