Main description:

Nowadays we are facing numerous and important imaging problems: nondestructive testing of materials, monitoring of industrial processes, enhancement of oil production by efficient reservoir characterization, emerging developments in noninvasive imaging techniques for medical purposes - computerized tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), positron emission tomography (PET), X-ray and ultrasound tomography, etc. In the CIME Summer School on Imaging (Martina Franca, Italy 2002), leading experts in mathematical techniques and applications presented broad and useful introductions for non-experts and practitioners alike to many aspects of this exciting field. The volume contains part of the above lectures completed and updated by additional contributions on other related topics.

Contents:

to Image Reconstruction.- X-ray Tomography.- Adjoint Fields and Sensitivities for 3D Electromagnetic Imaging in Isotropic and Anisotropic Media.- Polarization-Based Optical Imaging.- Topological Derivatives for Shape Reconstruction.- Time-Reversal and the Adjoint Imaging Method with an Application in Telecommunication.- A Brief Review on Point Interactions.