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The point source method for inverse scattering in the time domain

Luke, D. R. and Potthast, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6794-2500 (2006) The point source method for inverse scattering in the time domain. Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences, 29 (13). pp. 1501-1521. ISSN 0170-4214

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Abstract/Summary

Many recent inverse scattering techniques have been designed for single frequency scattered fields in the frequency domain. In practice, however, the data is collected in the time domain. Frequency domain inverse scattering algorithms obviously apply to time-harmonic scattering, or nearly time-harmonic scattering, through application of the Fourier transform. Fourier transform techniques can also be applied to non-time-harmonic scattering from pulses. Our goal here is twofold: first, to establish conditions on the time-dependent waves that provide a correspondence between time domain and frequency domain inverse scattering via Fourier transforms without recourse to the conventional limiting amplitude principle; secondly, we apply the analysis in the first part of this work toward the extension of a particular scattering technique, namely the point source method, to scattering from the requisite pulses. Numerical examples illustrate the method and suggest that reconstructions from admissible pulses deliver superior reconstructions compared to straight averaging of multi-frequency data. Copyright (C) 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Item Type:Article
Divisions:Science > School of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences > Department of Mathematics and Statistics
ID Code:4912
Uncontrolled Keywords:inverse problems scattering theory time-domain scattering image reconstruction HARMONIC ACOUSTIC-WAVES RESONANCE REGION OBSTACLE SCATTERING AMPLITUDE

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