On Simultaneous Recovery Of Sources/Obstacles And Surrounding Mediums By Boundary Measurements

Xiaoping Fang, Youjun Deng*, Wing Yan Tsui, Zaiyun Zhang

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Abstract

We consider a particular type of inverse problems where an unknown source embedded in an inhomogeneous medium, and one intends to recover the source and/or the medium by knowledge of the wave field (generated by the unknown source) outside the medium. This type of inverse problems arises in many applications of practical importance, including photoacoustic and thermoacoustic tomography, brain imaging and geomagnetic anomaly detections. We survey the recent mathematical developments on this type of inverse problems. We discuss the mathematical tools developed for effectively tackling this type of inverse problems. We also discuss a related inverse problem of recovering an embedded obstacle and its surrounding medium by active measurements.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1239-1255
Number of pages17
JournalElectronic Research Archive
Volume28
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Sept 2020

User-Defined Keywords

  • asymptotic analysis
  • frequency domain
  • geomagnetism
  • inverse problem
  • magnetized anomalies
  • uniqueness
  • Wave scattering

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