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Inverse scattering in inhomogeneous background media. II: Multi-frequency case and SVD formulation. (English) Zbl 1059.65099

Summary: The inverse scattering problem formulated and solved within the distorted wave Born approximation in Part I [A. J. Devaney and M. L. Dennison, ibid. 19, 855–870 (2003; Zbl 1041.35052)] is reformulated so as to be applicable to arbitrary (non-point) transmitter and receiver array elements and to frequency-independent (dispersionless) scattering potentials interrogated in a set of scattering experiments employing multiple temporal frequencies.
The underlying structure of the pseudo-inverse reconstruction algorithm developed in Part I is also revamped by use of the singular value decomposition (SVD) so as to employ an orthonormal basis in the Hilbert space of compactly supported scattering potentials. This basis replaces the linearly dependent set of spanning functions used in Part I and results in a more efficient reconstruction algorithm both in terms of CPU execution time as well as required computer storage space.
Computer simulations illustrating the performance of the reformulated algorithm are presented.

MSC:

65N21 Numerical methods for inverse problems for boundary value problems involving PDEs
35J05 Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation
65N38 Boundary element methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs
78A46 Inverse problems (including inverse scattering) in optics and electromagnetic theory
35R30 Inverse problems for PDEs
78M15 Boundary element methods applied to problems in optics and electromagnetic theory

Citations:

Zbl 1041.35052
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