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In this article, we study several reconstruction methods for the inverse source problem of photoacoustic tomography (PAT) with spatially variable sound speed and damping. The backbone of these methods is the adjoint operators, which we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-21 Linh V. Nguyen , Markus Haltmeier

Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is a novel and rapidly promising technique in the field of medical imaging, based on the generation of acoustic waves inside an object of interest by stimulating non-ionizing laser pulses. This acoustic wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-08 Hyungyeong Jung , Sunghwan Moon

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

The aim of this paper is to put the problem of vibroacoustic imaging into the mathematical framework of inverse problems (more precisely, coefficient identification in PDEs) and regularization. We present a model in frequency domain, prove…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-07 Barbara Kaltenbacher

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

This paper concerns thermoacoustic tomography and photoacoustic tomography, two couple-physics imaging modalities that attempt to combine the high resolution of ultrasound and the high contrast capabilities of electromagnetic waves. We give…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-30 Hongyu Liu , Gunther Uhlmann

We consider the problem of reconstruction of Cauchy data for the wave equation in $\mathbb{R}^1$ by the measurements of its solution on the boundary of the finite interval. This is a one-dimensional model for the multidimensional problem of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-26 D. Langemann , A. S. Mikhaylov , V. S. Mikhaylov

We consider the inverse source problem arising in thermo- and photo-acoustic tomography. It consists in reconstructing the initial pressure from the boundary measurements of the acoustic wave. Our goal is to extend versatile time reversal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-11-13 Linh V. Nguyen , Leonid Kunyansky

In photoacoustic imaging, ultrasound waves generated by a temperature rise after illumination of light absorbing structures are measured on the sample surface. These measurements are then used to reconstruct the optical absorption. We…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Oliver Lang , Peter Kovacs , Christian Motz , Mario Huemer , Thomas Berer , Peter Burgholzer

We present a new algorithm for reconstructing an unknown source in Thermoacoustic and Photoacoustic Tomography based on the recent advances in understanding the theoretical nature of the problem. We work with variable sound speeds that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Jianliang Qian , Plamen Stefanov , Gunther Uhlmann , Hongkai Zhao

Existing approaches to image reconstruction in photoacoustic computed tomography (PACT) with acoustically heterogeneous media are limited to weakly varying media, are computationally burdensome, and/or cannot effectively mitigate the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2013-03-25 Chao Huang , Kun Wang , Liming Nie , Lihong V. Wang , Mark A. Anastasio

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

Quantitative image reconstruction in photoacoustic tomography requires the solution of a coupled physics inverse problem involvier light transport and acoustic wave propagation. In this paper we address this issue employing the radiative…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-16 Markus Haltmeier , Lukas Neumann , Linh V. Nguyen , Simon Rabanser

We consider the problem of thermoacoustic tomography (TAT), in which one needs to reconstruct the initial value of a solution of the wave equation from its value on an observation surface. We show that if some geometric rays for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-12-15 Linh V. Nguyen

In this paper we derive time reversal imaging functionals for two strongly causal acoustic attenuation models, which have been proposed recently. The time reversal techniques are based on recently proposed ideas of Ammari et al for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-12 Konstantinos Kalimeris , Otmar Scherzer

In this article we study the reconstruction problem in TAT/PAT on an attenuating media. Namely, we prove a reconstruction procedure of the initial condition for the damped wave equation via Neumann series that works for arbitrary large…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-29 Benjamin Palacios

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

We consider the inverse problem of determining the initial states or the source term of a hyperbolic equation damped by some non-local time-fractional derivative. This framework is relevant to medical imaging such as thermoacoustic or…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-10 Xinchi Huang , Yavar Kian , Eric Soccorsi , Masahiro Yamamoto

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…

The paper contains a simple approach to reconstruction in Thermoacoustic and Photoacoustic Tomography. The technique works for any geometry of point detectors placement and for variable sound speed satisfying a non-trapping condition. A…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Mark Agranovsky , Peter Kuchment