Waves and Imaging Through Complex Media - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0792368142 ISBN 13: 9780792368144

Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001

Synopsis

Recent advances in wave propagation in random media are certainly consequences of new approaches to fundamental issues, as well as of a strong interest in potential applications. This text presents the state-of-the-art in fundamental concepts, as well as in biomedical imaging techniques. As an example, the recent introduction of wave chaos, and more specifically random matrix theory - an old tool from nuclear physics - to the study of multiple scattering, has pointed the way to a deeper understanding of wave coherence in complex media. At the same time, efficient new approaches for retrieving information from random media promise to allow wave imaging of small tumors in opaque tissues. Review chapters are written by experts in the field, with the aim of making the book accessible to the widest possible scientific audience: graduate students and research scientists in theoretical and applied physics, optics, acoustics, and biomedical physics.

Edition details

• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0792368142
• ISBN 13: 9780792368144
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 472
• Editor: Sebbah Patrick