Analysis for Full-Field Photoacoustic Tomography with Variable Sound Speed

Abstract

Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is a noninvasive imaging modality that requires recovering the initial data of the wave equation from certain measurements of the solution outside the object. In the standard PAT measurement setup, the used data consist of time-dependent signals measured on an observation surface. In contrast, the measured data from the recently invented full-field detection technique provide the solution of the wave equation on a spatial domain at a single instant in time. While reconstruction using classical PAT data has been extensively studied, not much is known for the full-field PAT problem. In this paper, we build mathematical foundations of the latter problem for variable sound speed and settle its uniqueness and stability. Moreover, we introduce an exact inversion method using time-reversal and study its convergence. Our results demonstrate the suitability of both the full-field approach and the proposed time-reversal technique for high-resolution photoacoustic imaging.

Department(s)

Mathematics

Document Type

Article

DOI

10.1137/21M1463409

Keywords

full field, Neumann series, photoacoustic tomography, stability, time reversal, uniqueness

Publication Date

1-1-2022

Journal Title

SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences

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