Transport-based imaging in random media

SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1738-1762

  Bal, Guillaume ^a   Ren, Kui ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Foldy Lax model; High frequency waves in random media; Imaging in random media; Inverse problems; Radiative transfer equation

Indexed keywords

COHERENT WAVE FIELD; CORRELATION LENGTHS; ENERGY DENSITY; ENSEMBLE AVERAGING; FIRST-PRINCIPLES; GEOMETRIC PROPERTIES; HIGH FREQUENCY WAVES; ILL POSED; IMAGING METHOD; IMAGING PROBLEMS; NUMBER OF DEGREES OF FREEDOM; PARAMETERIZED; RADIATIVE TRANSFER EQUATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER EQUATIONS; RANDOM MEDIA; RANDOM MEDIUM; RANDOM SCATTERERS; SCATTERING ENVIRONMENT; TIME-DEPENDENT; TRANSPORT PROBLEMS; WEAK-COUPLING REGIME;

COHERENT SCATTERING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUMERICAL METHODS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RANDOM PROCESSES; SOIL STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

INVERSE PROBLEMS;

EID: 77950100548     PISSN: 00361399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/070690122     Document Type: Article

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