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Bayesian imaging inverse problems in astrophysics and cosmology remain challenging, particularly in low-data regimes, due to complex forward operators and the frequent lack of well-motivated priors for non-Gaussian signals. In this paper,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-06 Sébastien Pierre , Erwan Allys , Pablo Richard , Roman Soletskyi , Alexandros Tsouros

Waves scattered by a weakly inhomogeneous random medium contain a predominant single scattering contribution as well as a multiple scattering contribution which is usually neglected, especially for imaging purposes. A method based on random…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Alexandre Aubry , Arnaud Derode

We present a new iterative rotation inversion technique based on the Simultaneous Algebraic Reconstruction Technique developed for image reconstruction. We describe in detail our algorithmic implementation and compare it to the classical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-17 Sylvain G. Korzennik , Antonio Eff-Darwich

Attenuation of ultrasound waves varies with tissue composition, hence its estimation offers great potential for tissue characterization and diagnosis and staging of pathology. We recently proposed a method that allows to spatially…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-10-13 Richard Rau , Ozan Unal , Dieter Schweizer , Valery Vishnevskiy , Orcun Goksel

Objective: Ultrasound elastography is gaining traction as an accessible and useful diagnostic tool for such things as cancer detection and differentiation and thyroid disease diagnostics. Unfortunately, state of the art shear wave imaging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Micha Feigin , Daniel Freedman , Brian W. Anthony

Ultrasound computed tomography (USCT) quantifies acoustic tissue properties such as the speed-of-sound (SOS). Although full-waveform inversion (FWI) is an effective method for accurate SOS reconstruction, it can be computationally…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-15 Gangwon Jeong , Fu Li , Trevor M. Mitcham , Umberto Villa , Nebojsa Duric , Mark A. Anastasio

A tomographic method is considered that forms images from sets of spatially randomized source signals and receiver sensitivities. The method is designed to allow image reconstruction for an extended number of transmitters and receivers in…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Gregory T. Clement , Tomoo Kamakura

Inverse scattering in layered media has a wide range of applications, examples including geophysical exploration, medical imaging, and remote sensing. In this paper, we develop a selective focusing method for identifying multiple unknown…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Jun Lai , Jinrui Zhang

The single-scatter approximation is fundamental in many tomographic imaging problems including x-ray scatter imaging and optical scatter imaging for certain media. In all cases, noisy measurements are affected by both local scatter events…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-21 Michael R. Walker , Joseph A. O'Sullivan

This paper provides a mathematical analysis of ultrafast ultrasound imaging. This newly emerging modality for biomedical imaging uses plane waves instead of focused waves in order to achieve very high frame rates. We derive the point spread…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-09 Giovanni S. Alberti , Habib Ammari , Francisco Romero , Timothée Wintz

This letter is focused on the design and analysis of computational wideband time-reversal imaging algorithms, designed to be adaptive with respect to the noise levels pertaining to the frequencies being employed for scene probing. These…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-28 D. Ciuonzo

Established image recovery methods in fast ultrasound imaging, e.g. delay-and-sum, trade the image quality for the high frame rate. Cutting-edge inverse scattering methods based on compressed sensing (CS) disrupt this tradeoff via a priori…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-03-15 Martin F. Schiffner

Ultrasound computed tomography (USCT) is an emerging medical imaging modality that holds great promise for improving human health. Full-waveform inversion (FWI)-based image reconstruction methods account for the relevant wave physics to…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-10-20 Fu Li , Umberto Villa , Nebojsa Duric , Mark A. Anastasio

Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is a rapidly-evolving medical imaging modality that combines optical absorption contrast with ultrasound imaging depth. One challenge in PAT is image reconstruction with inadequate acoustic signals due to…

This paper introduces a fast algorithm, applicable throughout the electromagnetic spectrum, for the numerical solution of problems of scattering by periodic surfaces in two-dimensional space. The proposed algorithm remains highly accurate…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-05-25 Oscar Bruno , Martín Maas

We report on ultrasonic imaging in a random heterogeneous medium. The goal is to detect flaws embedded deeply into a polycrystalline material. A 64-element array of piezoelectric transmitters/receivers at a central frequency of 5 MHz is…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-19 Sharfine Shahjahan , Alexandre Aubry , Fabienne Rupin , Bertrand Chassignole , Arnaud Derode

This study concentrates on advancing mathematical and computational methodology for radar tomography imaging in which the unknown volumetric velocity distribution of a wave within a bounded domain is to be reconstructed. Our goal is to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-04 Mika Takala , Defne Us , Sampsa Pursiainen

Here we introduce a new reconstruction technique for two-dimensional Bragg Scattering Tomography (BST), based on the Radon transform models of [arXiv preprint, arXiv:2004.10961 (2020)]. Our method uses a combination of ideas from multibang…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-26 James W. Webber , Eric L. Miller

Consider the inverse scattering of time-harmonic acoustic scattering by an infinite rough surface which is supposed to be a local perturbation of a plane. A novel version of reverse time migration (RTM) is proposed to reconstruct the shape…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-24 Jianliang Li , Hao Wu , Jiaqing Yang

Ultrasound modulated optical tomography, also called acousto-optics tomography, is a hybrid imaging modality that aims to combine the high contrast of optical waves with the high resolution of ultrasound. We follow the model of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-15 Guillaume Bal , Shari Moskow