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The image source method (ISM) is often used to simulate room acoustics due to its ease of use and computational efficiency. The standard ISM is limited to simulations of room impulse responses between point sources and omnidirectional…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-08 Zeyu Xu , Adrian Herzog , Alexander Lodermeyer , Emanuël A. P. Habets , Albert G. Prinn

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

Medical ultrasound imaging is the most widespread real-time non-invasive imaging system and its formulation comprises signal transmission, signal reception, and image formation. Ultrasound signal transmission modelling has been formalized…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-09 Chiara Razzetta , Valentina Candiani , Marco Crocco , Federico Benvenuto

In the context of wireless acoustic power transfer, high intensity focused ultrasound technology aims at the reduction of spreading losses by concentrating the acoustic energy at a specific location. Experiments are performed to determine…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Aarushi Bhargava , Vamsi C. Meesala , Muhammad R. Hajj , Shima Shahab

Speed-of-sound is a biomechanical property for quantitative tissue differentiation, with great potential as a new ultrasound-based image modality. A conventional ultrasound array transducer can be used together with an acoustic mirror, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-20 Valery Vishnevskiy , Sergio J Sanabria , Orcun Goksel

We introduce a generalization of time-domain wavefield reconstruction inversion to anisotropic acoustic modeling. Wavefield reconstruction inversion has been extensively researched in recent years for its ability to mitigate cycle skipping.…

Geophysics · Physics 2020-04-17 Mathias Louboutin , Gabrio Rizzuti , Felix J. Herrmann

Despite today's prevalence of ultrasound imaging in medicine, ultrasound signal-to-noise ratio is still affected by several sources of noise and artefacts. Moreover, enhancing ultrasound image quality involves balancing concurrent factors…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-18 Yuxin Zhang , Clément Huneau , Jérôme Idier , Diana Mateus

Inverse design of metasurfaces for specific electromagnetic responses requires generating geometries that satisfy stringent spectral constraints while maintaining manufacturability. Conventional design methodologies rely on iterative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Vineetha Joy , Jamshed Palai , Satwik Sahoo , Anshuman Kumar , Amit Sethi , Hema Singh

Ultrasound Tomography has seen a revival of interest in the past decade, especially for breast imaging, due to improvements in both ultrasound and computing hardware. In particular, three-dimensional ultrasound tomography, a fully…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-05-27 Ashkan Javaherian , Felix Lucka , Ben Cox

Focusing waves inside inhomogeneous media is a fundamental problem for imaging. Spatial variations of wave velocity can strongly distort propagating wavefronts and degrade image quality. Adaptive focusing can compensate for such aberration,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-15 William Lambert , Laura A. Cobus , Thomas Frappart , Mathias Fink , Alexandre Aubry

This paper is concerned with a practical inverse problem of simultaneously reconstructing the surface heat flux and the thickness of a solid structure from the associated ultrasonic measurements. In a thermoacoustic coupling model, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-01 Youjun Deng , Hongyu Liu , Xianchao Wang , Dong Wei , Liyan Zhu

With the rise of data-driven ultrasound imaging technologies, realistic simulation of ultrasound fields and radio-frequency data is becoming increasingly important. Accurate transducer characterization is crucial for realistic simulations.…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-09-29 Nathan Blanken , Michel Versluis , Guillaume Lajoinie

We consider the inverse problem of reconstructing an effective model for a prototypical diffusion process in strongly heterogeneous media based on coarse measurements. The approach is motivated by quasi-local numerical effective forward…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Alfonso Caiazzo , Roland Maier , Daniel Peterseim

Ultrasound (US) imaging is based on the time-reversal principle, in which individual channel RF measurements are back-propagated and accumulated to form an image after applying specific delays. While this time reversal is usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Shujaat Khan , Jaeyoung Huh , Jong Chul Ye

This paper considers a distributed wave-based sensing system that probes a scene consisting of multiple interacting idealized targets. Each sensor is a collocated transmit-receive pair that is capable of transmitting arbitrary wideband…

Optics · Physics 2015-10-27 Jerry Kim , Margaret Cheney , Eric Mokole

In non-destructive and biomedical imaging, spatial patterns inside a sample are imaged without destroying it. Therefore, propagating waves, including electromagnetic or ultrasonic signals, or even diffuse heat are generated or modified by…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-07-09 Peter Burgholzer , Lukas Gahleitner , Guenther Mayr

Traditional ultrasound simulation methods solve wave equations numerically, achieving high accuracy but at substantial computational cost. Faster alternatives based on convolution with precomputed impulse responses remain relatively slow,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Felix Duelmer , Mohammad Farid Azampour , Nassir Navab

Traditional sound diffusers are quasi-random phase gratings attached to reflecting surfaces whose purpose is to augment the spatiotemporal incoherence of the acoustic field scattered from reflective surfaces. This configuration allows one…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Janghoon Kang , Michael R. Haberman

This study formally adapts the time-domain linear sampling method (TLSM) for ultrasonic imaging of stationary and evolving fractures in safety-critical components. The TLSM indicator is then applied to the laboratory test data of [22, 18]…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-16 Xiaoli Liu , Jian Song , Fatemeh Pourahmadian , Houssem Haddar

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