Inverse transport with isotropic sources and angularly averaged measurements

Pages: 23 - 42, Volume 2, Issue 1, February 2008

doi:10.3934/ipi.2008.2.23       Abstract        Full Text (265.6K)       Related Articles

Guillaume Bal - Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, New York NY, 10027, United States (email)
Ian Langmore - Department of Mathematics, University of Washington, Seattle WA, 98195, United States (email)
François Monard - Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, New York NY, 10027, United States (email)

Abstract: We consider the reconstruction of a spatially-dependent scattering coefficient in a linear transport equation from diffusion-type measurements. In this setup, the contribution to the measurement is an integral of the scattering kernel against a product of harmonic functions, plus an additional term that is small when absorption and scattering are small. The linearized problem is severely ill-posed. We construct a regularized inverse that allows for reconstruction of the low frequency content of the scattering kernel, up to quadratic error, from the nonlinear map. An iterative scheme is used to improve this error so that it is small when the high frequency content of the scattering kernel is small.

Keywords:  Inverse Transport Theory, Optical Tomography, Averaged Measurements, Complex Geometrical Optics Solutions.
Mathematics Subject Classification:  65R32, 92C55, 82C70.

Received: August 2007;      Revised: November 2007;      Published: January 2008.