Inverse problems of wave propagation and diffraction : proceedings of the conference, held in Aix-les-Bains, France, September 23-27, 1996 / Guy Chavent, Pierre C. Sabatier

Contents: M. Bertero, P. Boccacci and M. Piana, Resolution and super-resolution in inverse diffraction (1–17); B. McNally and E. R. Pike, Mathematical programming for positive solutions of ill-conditioned inverse problems (18–26); Ricardo Weder, Inverse scattering for N-body systems with time-dependent potentials (27–46); Anne Boutet de Monvel [Anne-Marie Boutet de Monvel-Berthier] and Dimitri Shepelsky [D. G. Shepelʹskiĭ], Inverse scattering approach for stratified chiral media (47–57); M. A. Fiddy and D. A. Pommet, Recovery of strongly scattering permittivity distributions from limited backscattered data using a nonlinear filtering technique (58–70); Kurt Scheerschmidt, Retrieval of object information from electron diffraction as ill-posed inverse problems (71–85); David L. Colton, A linear method for solving inverse scattering problems in the resonance region (86–92); Rainer Kress, Numerical methods in inverse obstacle scattering (93–106); Hervé Carfantan and Ali Mohammad-Djafari, An overview of nonlinear diffraction tomography within the Bayesian estimation framework (107–124); Alfred K. Louis, Application of the approximate inverse to inverse scattering (125–129); C. Rozier, D. Lesselier, T. S. Angell and R. E. Kleinman, Reconstruction of an impenetrable obstacle immersed in a shallow water acoustic waveguide (130–142); Ralph E. Kleinman, Peter M. van den Berg, Bernard Duchêne and Dominique Lesselier, Location and reconstruction of objects using a modified gradient approach (143–158); Tuong Ha-Duong [Tuong Ha-Duong], Generalizations of Karp's theorem to elastic scattering theory (159–168); Christophe Labreuche, Inverse obstacle scattering problem based on resonant frequencies (169–185); A. Gérard, A. Guran [Ardéshir Guran], G. Maze, J. Ripoche and H. Überall, New developments in the application of inverse scattering to target recognition and remote sensing (186–203); Martin Haas, Wolfgang Rieger, Wolfgang Rucker and Günther Lehner, Inverse 3D acoustic and electromagnetic obstacle scattering by iterative adaptation (204–215); Frank Natterer, An algorithm for 3D ultrasound tomography (216–225); Gang Bao [Gang Bao1] and William W. Symes, Regularity of an inverse problem in wave propagation (226–235); Patrick Joly, Developments in numerical methods for transient scattering problems (236–249); A. Litman, D. Lesselier and F. Santosa, A level-set approach for eddy current imaging of defects in a conductive half-space (250–262); Lorella Fatone, Pierluigi Maponi, Cristina Pignotti and Francesco Zirilli, An inverse problem for the two-dimensional wave equation in a stratified medium (263–274); Michel Cuer and Jean Louis Petit, On the inverse seismic problem for horizontally layered media: subsidiary study (275–293); Fabian Ernst and Gérard Herman, Scattering of guided waves in laterally varying layered media (294–305); T. J. Moser, M. Biryulina and G. Ryzhikov, Born inversion in realistic backgrounds by means of recursive Green's functions (306–322); Pascal Amand and Jean Virieux, Nonlinear inversion of seismic reflection data by simulated annealing (323–333); Alessandra Ribodetti and Jean Virieux, Asymptotic theory for imaging the attenuation factors QP and QS (334–353); Stephane Alestra and Eric Duceau, An inverse time domain problem for a stratified, biperiodic and 2D medium using an optimization method (354–366); T. Scotti and A. Wirgin, Shape reconstruction of a penetrable homogeneous 3D scattering body via the ICBA (367–372).