Near field imaging of small isotropic and extended anisotropic scatterers

TL;DR

This paper develops and compares methods for reconstructing small isotropic and extended anisotropic scatterers from near field measurements, using the MUSIC algorithm, Bayesian methods, and factorization techniques.

Contribution

It introduces a combined approach for reconstructing both small isotropic and extended anisotropic obstacles using advanced inverse scattering methods.

Findings

Successful numerical reconstructions of small isotropic scatterers using MUSIC.

Support characterization of anisotropic obstacles via factorization method.

Reconstruction without prior knowledge of material properties under certain conditions.

Abstract

In this paper, we consider two time-harmonic inverse scattering problems of reconstructing penetrable inhomogeneous obstacles from near field measurements. First we appeal to the Born approximation for reconstructing small isotropic scatterers via the MUSIC algorithm. Some numerical reconstructions using the MUSIC algorithm are provided for reconstructing the scatterer and piecewise constant refractive index using a Bayesian method. We then consider the reconstruction of an anisotropic extended scatterer by {a modified linear sampling method and the factorization method applied }to the near field operator. This provides a rigorous characterization of the support of the anisotropic obstacle in terms of a range test derived from the measured data. Under appropriate assumptions on the material parameters, the derived factorization can be used to determine the support of the medium without a-priori knowledge of the material properties.