Inversion of synthetic and experimental acoustical scattering data for thecomparison of two reconstruction methods employing the Born approximation

This work is concerned with the reconstruction, from measured (synthetic or real) data, of a 2D penetrable fluid-like object of arbitrary cross-sectio n embedded in a fluid of infinite extent and insonified by a plane acoustic wave. Green's theorem is used to provide a domain integral representation of the scattered field. The introduction therein of the Born approximation gives rise to a linearized form of the inverse problem. The actual inversio n is carried out by two methods. The first diffraction tomography (DT), exh ibits the contrast function very conveniently and explicitly in the form of a wave number/incident angle Fourier transform of the far backscattered fi eld and thus requires measurements of this held for incident waves ail arou nd the object and at all frequencies. The second discretized domain integra l equation with Born approximation method, is numerically more intensive, b ut enables a wider choice of configurations and requires less measurements (one or several frequencies, one or several incident waves, choice of measu rement points) than the DT method. A comparison of the two methods is carri ed out by inversion of both simulated and experimental scattered field data . (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.