Polarimetric neutron tomography of magnetic fields: uniqueness of solution and reconstruction

DOI10.1088/1361-6420/AB44E0zbMATH Open1476.44001arXiv1903.10884OpenAlexW3103954741MaRDI QIDQ5000574FDOQ5000574

Naeem M. Desai, William R. B. Lionheart, Søren Schmidt, Morten Sales, Markus Strobl

Publication date: 14 July 2021

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

Abstract: We consider the problem of determination of a magnetic field from three dimensional polarimetric neutron tomography data. We see that this is an example of a non-Abelian ray transform and that the problem has a globally unique solution for smooth magnetic fields with compact support, and a locally unique solution for less smooth fields. We derive the linearization of the problem and note that the derivative is injective. We go on to show that the linearised problem about a zero magnetic field reduces to plane Radon transforms and suggest a modified Newton Kantarovich method (MNKM) type algorithm for the numerical solution of the non-linear problem, in which the forward problem is re-solved but the same derivative used each time. Numerical experiments demonstrate that MNKM works for small enough fields (or large enough velocities) and show an example where it fails to reconstruct a slice of the simulated data set. Lastly we show viewed as an optimization problem the inverse problem is non-convex so we expect gradient based methods may fail.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.10884

zbMATH Keywords

reconstruction algorithmuniqueness of solutionRadon inversionnon-abelian ray transformpolarimetric neutron tomography of magnetic fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Radon transform (44A12) Integral geometry (53C65) Numerical methods for integral transforms (65R10) Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25)

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• Histogram tomography
• The transport Oka-Grauert principle for simple surfaces
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