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Optical Diffraction Tomography (ODT) is a powerful non-invasive imaging technique widely used in biological and medical applications. While significant progress has been made in transmission configuration, reflection ODT remains challenging…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-14 Thomas Wasik , Victor Barolle , Alexandre Aubry , Josselin Garnier

Traditionally, the diffraction of a scalar wave satisfying Helmholtz equation through an aperture on an otherwise black screen can be solved approximately by Kirchhoff's integral over the aperture. Rubinowicz, on the other hand, was able to…

Classical Physics · Physics 2011-12-16 Yi-Chuan Lu

In this paper, a linear model based on multiple measurement vectors model is proposed to formulate the inverse scattering problem of highly conductive objects at one single frequency. Considering the induced currents which are mostly…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-27 Shilong Sun , Bert Jan Kooij , Alexander G. Yarovoy

Optical diffraction tomography is an indispensable tool for studying objects in three-dimensions due to its ability to accurately reconstruct scattering objects. Until now this technique has been limited to coherent light because spatial…

This report extends our recent progress in tackling a challenging 3D inverse scattering problem governed by the Helmholtz equation. Our target application is to reconstruct dielectric constants, electric conductivities and shapes of front…

This paper is concerned with the inverse scattering problem which aims to determine the spatially distributed dielectric constant coefficient of the 2D Helmholtz equation from multifrequency backscatter data associated with a single…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-25 Trung Truong , Dinh-Liem Nguyen , Michael Klibanov

A major challenge of many diffraction calculations, using some form of the Rayleigh-Sommerfeld formulas, is the integration of a highly oscillatory integrand. Here we derive a potentially useful alternative form of solution to the Helmholtz…

Optics · Physics 2013-02-04 Daniel J. Merthe

We present the development of extended diffraction tomography, a new approach to the solution of the linear seismic waveform inversion problem. This method has several appealing features, such as the use of arbitrary depth-dependent…

Geophysics · Physics 2009-05-05 R. B. Schlottmann

Inverse scattering is the process of estimating the spatial distribution of the scattering potential of an object by measuring the scattered wavefields around it. In this paper, we consider reflection tomography of high contrast objects…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-17 Ajinkya Kadu , Hassan Mansour , Petros T. Boufounos

Inverse scattering has a broad applicability in quantum mechanics, remote sensing, geophysical, and medical imaging. This paper presents a robust direct reduced order model (ROM) method for solving inverse scattering problems based on an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-29 Justin Baker , Elena Cherkaev , Vladimir Druskin , Shari Moskow , Mikhail Zaslavsky

In this paper, we focus on a new wave equation described wave propagation in the attenuation medium. In the first part of this paper, based on the time-domain space fractional wave equation, we formulate the frequency-domain equation named…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-23 Junxiong Jia , Shigang Yu , Jigen Peng , Jinghuai Gao

Inverse scattering problems without the phase information arise in imaging of nanostructures whose sizes are hundreds of nanometers as well as in imaging of biological cells. The governing equation is the 3-d generalized Helmholtz equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-05 Michael V. Klibanov , Loc H. Nguyen , Kejia Pan

In Optical diffraction tomography, the multiply scattered field is a nonlinear function of the refractive index of the object. The Rytov method is a linear approximation of the forward model, and is commonly used to reconstruct images.…

We propose in this paper a globally numerical method to solve a phaseless coefficient inverse problem: how to reconstruct the spatially distributed refractive index of scatterers from the intensity (modulus square) of the full complex…

Multiple scattering of an electromagnetic wave as it passes through an object is a fundamental problem that limits the performance of current imaging systems. In this paper, we describe a new technique-called Series Expansion with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-12 Hsiou-Yuan Liu , Dehong Liu , Hassan Mansour , Petros T. Boufounos , Laura Waller , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

The inverse scattering problem, whose goal is to reconstruct an unknown scattering object from its scattered wave, is essential in fundamental wave physics and its wide applications in imaging sciences. However, it remains challenging to…

Optics · Physics 2021-09-08 Moosung Lee , Herve Hugonnet , YongKeun Park

A 3-D inverse medium problem in the frequency domain is considered. Another name for this problem is Coefficient Inverse Problem. The goal is to reconstruct spatially distributed dielectric constants from scattering data. Potential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-23 Michael V. Klibanov , Hui Liu , Loc H. Nguyen

Inverse medium scattering is an ill-posed, nonlinear wave-based imaging problem arising in medical imaging, remote sensing, and non-destructive testing. Machine learning (ML) methods offer increased inference speed and flexibility in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Olivia Tsang , Owen Melia , Vasileios Charisopoulos , Jeremy Hoskins , Yuehaw Khoo , Rebecca Willett

Consider the scattering of a time-harmonic plane wave by heterogeneous media consisting of linear or nonlinear point scatterers and extended obstacles. A generalized Foldy-Lax formulation is developed to take fully into account of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-22 Jun Lai , Ming Li , Peijun Li , Wei Li

In this paper, we study the mathematical imaging problem of diffraction tomography (DT), which is an inverse scattering technique used to find material properties of an object by illuminating it with probing waves and recording the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-16 Florian Faucher , Clemens Kirisits , Michael Quellmalz , Otmar Scherzer , Eric Setterqvist