Recovery of the absorption coefficient in radiative transport from a single measurement

DOI10.3934/IPI.2015.9.289zbMATH Open1334.35413arXiv1308.4655OpenAlexW3102031988MaRDI QIDQ255986FDOQ255986

Authors: S. Acosta 

Publication date: 9 March 2016

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

Abstract: In this paper, we investigate the recovery of the absorption coefficient from boundary data assuming that the region of interest is illuminated at an initial time. We consider a sufficiently strong and isotropic, but otherwise unknown initial state of radiation. This work is part of an effort to reconstruct optical properties using unknown illumination embedded in the unknown medium. We break the problem into two steps. First, in a linear framework, we seek the simultaneous recovery of a forcing term of the form $sigma(t,x,heta)f(x)$ (with $sigma$ known) and an isotropic initial condition $u_0(x)$ using the single measurement induced by these data. Based on exact boundary controllability, we derive a system of equations for the unknown terms $f$ and $u_0$. The system is shown to be Fredholm if $sigma$ satisfies a certain positivity condition. We show that for generic term $sigma$ and weakly absorbing media, this linear inverse problem is uniquely solvable with a stability estimate. In the second step, we use the stability results from the linear problem to address the nonlinearity in the recovery of a weak absorbing coefficient. We obtain a locally Lipschitz stability estimate.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1308.4655

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zbMATH Keywords

inverse problemsneutronoptical imagingradiation transfer

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biological applications of optics and electromagnetic theory (78A70) Boltzmann equations (35Q20) PDEs in connection with optics and electromagnetic theory (35Q60) Inverse problems for PDEs (35R30)

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