Waves and Imaging Through Complex MediaPatrick Sebbah 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. |
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a Brief Introduction | 15 |
Coherent Multiple Scattering in Disordered Media | 29 |
Statistical Approach to Photon Localization | 53 |
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A. Z. Genack absorption acoustic amplitude approximation average backscattering ballistic beam biological tissue Brownian Brownian motion calculated cavity chaotic classical coefficient coherence confocal contribution correlation function corresponding decay density depth detection detector diffractive diffuson disorder distribution DLCI dynamics elastic waves electrons energy levels ensemble equation experimental exponential field Figure fluctuations fluorescence frequency Gaussian geometry Green's function Helmholtz equation heterodyne holography imaging intensity laser Lett level repulsion localization mean free path measured medium mode modulation multiple scattering nonlinear obtained optical parameter particles path length periodic orbits phase photon photorefractive Phys plane propagation quantum quantum chaos R. L. Weaver Random Matrix Theory random media regime resolution sample scale scattered light scattering media Sebbah semiclassical signal single scattering slab spatial speckle pattern spectral spectrum statistics surface suspension technique thickness time-reversal transducer transmission turbid media ultrasonic wave vectors waveguide wavelength