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This paper is devoted to a novel quantitative imaging scheme of identifying impenetrable obstacles in time-harmonic acoustic scattering from the associated far-field data. The proposed method consists of two phases. In the first phase, we…
We propose a reliable direct imaging method based on the reverse time migration for finding extended obstacles with phaseless total field data. We prove that the imaging resolution of the method is essentially the same as the imaging…
Sound speed heterogeneities can create aberrations in B-mode ultrasound images by inducing tissue-dependent delays and diffractive effects that conventional beamforming does not incorporate. By using the Fourier split-step method to…
Thermo- and photo- acoustic tomography require reconstructing initial acoustic pressure in a body from time series of pressure measured on a surface surrounding the body. For the classical case of free space wave propagation, various…
This paper is concerned with inverse acoustic scattering problem of inferring the position and shape of a sound-soft obstacle from phaseless far-field data. We propose the Bayesian approach to recover sound-soft disks, line cracks and…
In this paper, we consider the inverse problem of determining the location and the shape of a sound-soft obstacle from the modulus of the far-field data for a single incident plane wave. By adding a reference ball artificially to the…
We consider the scattering of time-harmonic plane waves by a compactly supported inhomogeneous scattering obstacle governed by the Helmholtz equation. Given far field observations of the scattered fields corresponding to plane wave incident…
We are concerned with the inverse scattering problem of extracting the geometric structures of an unknown/inaccessible inhomogeneous medium by using the corresponding acoustic far-field measurement. Using the intrinsic geometric properties…
This paper develops an efficient numerical method for the inverse scattering problem of a time-harmonic plane wave incident on a perfectly reflecting random periodic structure. The method is based on a novel combination of the Monte Carlo…
The time-reversal mirror (TRM) of acoustic waves is used as a focusing technique that is robust against disorder and chaos. The propagation of an ultrasonic pulse from the focal point is detected and recorded by a surrounding array of…
Seismic imaging is a computationally demanding and data-intensive activity in the oil and gas industry. Reverse Time Migration (RTM) used in seismic applications needs to store the forward-propagated wavefield (or source wavefield) on disk.…
Least-squares reverse time migration is well-known for its capability to generate artifact-free true-amplitude subsurface images through fitting observed data in the least-squares sense. However, when applied to realistic imaging problems,…
We propose a new reverse time migration method for reconstructing extended obstacles in the planar waveguide using acoustic waves at a fixed frequency. We prove the resolution of the reconstruction method in terms of the aperture and the…
This work is concerned with a direct sampling method (DSM) for inverse acoustic scattering problems using far-field data. The method characterizes some unknown obstacles, inhomogeneous media or cracks, directly through an indicator function…
Computational time reversal imaging can be used to locate the position of multiple scatterers in a known background medium. The current methods for computational time reversal imaging are based on the null subspace projection operator,…
This paper is concerned with acoustic scattering from a sound-soft trapezoidal surface in two dimensions. The trapezoidal surface is supposed to consist of two horizontal half-lines pointing oppositely, and a single finite vertical line…
We derive time reflection and transmission coefficients for 1D acoustic waves encountering a time boundary at which the properties of the medium change instantaneously. The time reflection and transmission coefficients are shown to be…
Consider the geometric inverse problem: There is a set of delta-sources in spacetime that emit waves travelling at unit speed. If we know all the arrival times at the boundary cylinder of the spacetime, can we reconstruct the space, a…
Least-Squares Reverse-Time Migration (LSRTM) is a method that seismologists utilize to compute a high-resolution subsurface image. Nevertheless, LSRTM is a computationally demanding problem. One way to reduce the computational costs of the…
We propose a method -- a quantum time mirror (QTM) -- for simulating a partial time-reversal of the free-space motion of a nonrelativistic quantum wave packet. The method is based on a short-time spatially-homogeneous perturbation to the…