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Consider the reconstruction of the complex refraction index of an object, which is immersed in a known homogeneous background, from the knowledge of scattered waves of the point sources outside of the object. We firstly establish the uniqueness for this inverse problem, which provides the theoretical basis for the reconstruction scheme. Then based on the contrast source inversion (CSI) method, we propose an algorithm determining the refraction index and the artificial wave sources alternately by a dynamic iterative scheme. The algorithm defines the iterates by solving a series of minimization problems with uniformly convex penalty terms, which are allowed to be non-smooth to include L1 and total variation like functionals, ensuring the reconstruction quality when the unknown refraction index has the special features such as sparsity and discontinuity. By choosing the regularizing parameter automatically, the algorithm is terminated in terms of discrepancy principle. The convergence property of the iterative sequence is rigorously proven. Numerical implementations demonstrate the validity of the proposed algorithm.
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This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 1421110002, 11531005 and 11501102) and National Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (Grant No. BK20150594). The authors are grateful to Prof. Yamamoto M. and Dr. Lin H. X. for valuable and helpful comments and discussions.
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Zhong, M., Liu, J. On the reconstruction of media inhomogeneity by inverse wave scattering model. Sci. China Math. 60, 1825–1836 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11425-016-9054-6
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