Exterior/interior problem for the circular means transform with applications to intravascular imaging

DOI10.3934/IPI.2014.8.339zbMATH Open1305.44001arXiv1308.6016OpenAlexW2012245561MaRDI QIDQ479845FDOQ479845

Authors: Gaik Ambartsoumian, Leonid A. Kunyansky 

Publication date: 5 December 2014

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

Abstract: Exterior inverse problem for the circular means transform (CMT) arises in the intravascular photoacoustic imaging (IVPA), in the intravascular ultrasound imaging (IVUS), as well as in radar and sonar. The reduction of the IPVA to the CMT is quite straightforward. As shown in the paper, in IVUS the circular means can be recovered from measurements by solving a certain Volterra integral equation. Thus, a tomography reconstruction in both modalities requires solving the exterior problem for the CMT. Numerical solution of this problem usually is not attempted due to the presence of "invisible" wavefronts, which results in severe instability of the reconstruction. The novel inversion algorithm proposed in this paper yields a stable partial reconstruction: it reproduces the "visible" part of the image and blurs the "invisible" part. If the image contains little or no invisible wavefronts (as frequently happens in the IVPA and IVUS) the reconstruction is quantitatively accurate. The presented numerical simulations demonstrate the feasibility of tomography-like reconstruction in these modalities.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1308.6016

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zbMATH Keywords

exterior problemRadon transformcircular meansintravascular imagingphotoacoustic tomography

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biomedical imaging and signal processing (92C55) Radon transform (44A12) Numerical methods for inverse problems for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M32)

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