Generalized stability estimates in inverse transport theory

DOI10.3934/IPI.2018003zbMATH Open1395.35206arXiv1703.00691OpenAlexW2951583052MaRDI QIDQ1673802FDOQ1673802

Authors: Guillaume Bal, Alexandre Jollivet 

Publication date: 14 September 2018

Published in: Inverse Problems and Imaging (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Inverse transport theory concerns the reconstruction of the absorption and scattering coefficients in a transport equation from knowledge of the albedo operator, which models all possible boundary measurements. Uniqueness and stability results are well known and are typically obtained for errors of the albedo operator measured in the $L^1$ sense. We claim that such error estimates are not always very informative. For instance, arbitrarily small blurring and misalignment of detectors result in $O(1)$ errors of the albedo operator and hence in $O(1)$ error predictions on the reconstruction of the coefficients, which are not useful. This paper revisit such stability estimates by introducing a more forgiving metric on the measurements errors, namely the $1-$Wasserstein distances, which penalize blurring or misalignment by an amount proportional to the width of the blurring kernel or to the amount of misalignment. We obtain new stability estimates in this setting. We also consider the effect of errors, still measured in the $1-$Wasserstein distance, on the generation of the probing source. This models blurring and misalignment in the design of (laser) probes and allow us to consider a discretized sources. Under appropriate assumptions on the coefficients, we quantify the effect of such errors on the reconstructions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.00691

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zbMATH Keywords

Wasserstein distanceinverse problemsalbedo operatorstability estimateslinear transport

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inverse problems for PDEs (35R30) Inverse problems for integral equations (45Q05)

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