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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

Diffusion models have demonstrated their utility as learned priors for solving various inverse problems. However, most existing approaches are limited to linear inverse problems. This paper exploits the efficient and unsupervised posterior…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-07 Mehmet Onurcan Kaya , Figen S. Oktem

Ensembles of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers are used as sensors to detect NMR signals from micron-sized samples at room temperature. In this scenario, the regime of large magnetic fields is especially interesting as it leads to a large…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-04 C. Munuera-Javaloy , A. Tobalina , J. Casanova

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

Inverse scattering and spectral one-dimensional problems are discussed systematically in a self-contained way. Many novel results, due to the author are presented. The classical results are often presented in a new way. Several highlights…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander G. Ramm

We derive a formula for the non-coherent wave field propagation in terms of the Fourier transformation. As a result, we find a theoretical solution of the inverse problem of image propagation in non-coherent case. However, the practical…

Optics · Physics 2009-02-11 Jan A. Mamczur , Marek J. Matczak

This study outlines a numerical methodology aimed at rectifying the neutron scattering cross-sections of fundamental elements across a range of low neutron energies typically employed in general neutron scattering experiments. By using the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2023-09-28 Karrie E. An , Guan-Rong Huang , Changwoo Do , Wei-Ren Chen

A method to calculate particle fluxes applicable in most of the spectroscopy techniques is described. Flux intensities of backscattered or absorbed electrons and emitted photons are calculated using a method of convergence to solve the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-05 C. Figueroa , N. Nieva , H. Brizuela , S. P. Heluani

An overview is given of Bayesian inversion and regularization procedures. In particular, the conceptual basis of the maximum entropy method (MEM) is discussed, and extensions to positive/negative and complex data are highlighted. Other…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 A. N. Lasenby , R. B. Barreiro , M. P. Hobson

Consider the incidence of a time-harmonic electromagnetic plane wave onto a biperiodic dielectric grating, where the surface is assumed to be a small and smooth perturbation of a plane. The diffraction is modeled as a transmission problem…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-02 Xue Jiang , Peijun Li

New high statistics data from the second generation of ultrarelativistic heavy-ion experiments open up new possibilities in terms of data analysis. To fully utilize the potential we propose to analyze the $m_\perp$-spectra of hadrons using…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Ekkard Schnedermann

We develop a physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) framework for the inverse scattering problem in nuclear physics and apply it to the $P_{3/2}$ partial wave of neutron-alpha elastic scattering. The radial potential is represented by a…

The inverse problem of Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) is often solved in an effort to benchmark and design approximate exchange-correlation potentials. The forward and inverse problems of DFT rely on the same equations but the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Daniel Jensen , Adam Wasserman

Optically active spin defects in solids offer promising platforms to investigate nuclear spin clusters with high sensitivity and atomic-site resolution. To leverage near-surface defects for molecular structure analysis in chemical and…

The significance of the broken ray transform (BRT) is due to its occurrence in a number of modalities spanning optical, x-ray, and nuclear imaging. When data are indexed by the scatter location, the BRT is both linear and shift invariant.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-07 Michael R. Walker , Joseph A. O'Sullivan

Accurate spectral analysis of high-energy astrophysical sources often relies on comparing observed data to incident spectral models convolved with the instrument response. However, for Gamma-Ray Bursts and other high-energy transient events…

Reconstructing the unknown spectrum of a given X-ray source is a common problem in a wide range of X-ray imaging tasks. For high-energy sources, transmission measurements are mostly used to recover the X-ray spectrum, as a solution to an…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-07-13 Arthur Walker , Alexandre Friou , Kevin Ginsburger

Achieving atomic resolution is the ultimate limit of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and attaining this capability offers enormous technological and scientific opportunities, from drug development to understanding the dynamics in…

Multi-energy computed tomography (ME-CT) is an x-ray transmission imaging technique that uses the energy dependence of x-ray photon attenuation to determine the elemental composition of an object of interest. Mathematically, forward ME-CT…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-02-16 Guillaume Bal , Ruoming Gong , Fatma Terzioglu

The Newton-Sabatier method for solving inverse scattering problem with fixed-energy phase shifts for a sperically symmetric potential is discussed. It is shown that this method is fundamentally wrong: in general it cannot be carried…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 A. G. Ramm