In the plane, we study the transform $R_\gamma f$ of integrating a unknown
function $f$ over circles centered at a given curve $\gamma$. This is a
simplified model of SAR, when the radar is not directed but has other
applications, like thermoacoustic tomography, for example. We study the problem
of recovering the wave front set $\WF(f)$. If the visible singularities of $f$
hit $\gamma$ once, we show that the "artifacts" cannot be resolved. If $\gamma$
is a closed curve, we show that this is still true.
The advent of transformation optics and metamaterials has made possible
devices producing extreme effects on wave propagation. Here we give theoretical
designs for devices, Schr\"odinger hats, acting as invisible concentrators of
waves.
We prove that a potential $q$ can be reconstructed from the
Dirichlet-to-Neumann map for the Schrodinger operator $-\Delta_g + q$ in a
fixed admissible 3-dimensional Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$. We also show that
an admissible metric $g$ in a fixed conformal class can be constructed from the
Dirichlet-to-Neumann map for $\Delta_g$. This is a constructive version of
earlier uniqueness results by Dos Santos Ferreira et al. on admissible
manifolds, and extends the reconstruction procedure of Nachman in Euclidean
space.
We study the mathematical model of thermoacoustic and photoacoustic
tomography when the sound speed has a jump across a smooth surface. This models
the change of the sound speed in the skull when trying to image the human
brain. We derive an explicit inversion formula in the form of a convergent
Neumann series under the assumptions that all singularities from the support of
the source reach the boundary.
This paper analyzes the reconstruction of diffusion and absorption parameters
in an elliptic equation from knowledge of internal data. In the application of
photo-acoustics, the internal data are the amount of thermal energy deposited
by high frequency radiation propagating inside a domain of interest. These data
are obtained by solving an inverse wave equation, which is well-studied in the
literature. We show that knowledge of two internal data based on well-chosen
boundary conditions uniquely determines two constitutive parameters in
diffusion and Schroedinger equations.
We show that fixed energy scattering measurements for the magnetic
Schroedinger operator uniquely determine the magnetic field and electric
potential in dimensions $n \geq 3$. The magnetic potential, its first
derivatives, and the electric potential are assumed to be exponentially
decaying. This improves an earlier result of Eskin and Ralston which considered
potentials with many derivatives.