Modification to first-order Born approximation for improved prediction of scattered sound from weakly scattering objects

When deriving the Fourier diffraction theorem based on the first-order Born approximation,the difference between wave number of the scattering object and that of the surrounding medium is ignored,causing substantial errors in sound scattering prediction.This paper modifies the Born approximation by taking into account the amplitude and phase changes between the scattering object and the water due to the wave number difference.By changing the radius and center position of the sampling circle in the Fourier domain,accuracy of the predicted sound scattering is improved.With the modified Born approximation,the computed far-field directional pattern of the scattered sound from a circular cylinder is in good agreement with the rigorous solution.Numerical calculations for several objects with different shapes are used to show applicability and effectiveness of the proposed method.     

修正一阶Born近似改进水中弱散射目标的散射声场预报

在推导Fourier衍射定理中运用一阶Born近似时忽略了弱散射体内外的波数差异,使散射声场方向特性的预报产生较大误差,针对这一问题,对一阶Born近似进行修正。考虑散射体内外波数差异引起的幅度和相位误差,通过调整频域采样圆弧半径并移动圆心位置得到了修正的一阶Born近似解。由于更准确地反映了目标与周围水介质的声学性质,有效提高了散射声场的预报精度。根据修正的Born近似计算了弱散射条件下无限长圆柱目标的散射远场指向性,结果与严格解相吻合,对其它形状截面的柱状目标也得到了合理的计算结果。      

Study of （e, 2e） process on potassium at 6 eV-60 eV above threshold in a second-order Born approximation

The standard distorted wave Born approximation(DWBA) method has been extended to second-order Born amplitude in order to describe the multiple interactions between the projectile and the atomic target.Second-order DWBA calculations have been preformed to investigate the triple differential cross sections(TDCS) of coplanar doubly symmetric(e,2e) collisions for the alkali target potassium at excess energies of 6 eV-60 eV.Compared with the previous first-order DWBA calculations,the present theoretical model improves the degree of agreement with experiments,especially for the backward scattering angle region of TDCS.This indicates that the present second-order Born term is capable of giving a reasonable correction to the DWBA model in studying coplanar symmetric(e,2e) problems in low and intermediate energy ranges.     

Study of (e, 2e) process on potassium at 6 eV—60 eV above threshold in second-order Born approximation

The standard distorted wave Born approximation (DWBA) method has been extended to second-order Born amplitude in order to describe the multiple interactions between the projectile and the atomic target. Second-order DWBA calculations have been preformed to investigate the triple differential cross sections (TDCS) of coplanar doubly symmetric (e, 2e) collisions for alkali target potassium at excess energies of 6 eV-60 eV. Comparing with the first-order DWBA calculations before, the present theoretical model improves the degree of agreement with experiments, especially for backward scattering angle region of TDCS. This indicates that the present second-order Born term is capable to give a reasonable correction to DWBA model in studying coplanar symmetric (e, 2e) problems in low and intermediate energy range.     

Behaviour of scattering from a rough surface at small grazing angles

The particular problem of wave scattering at low grazing angles is of great interest because of its importance for the long-distance propagation of radio waves along the Earth's surface, radar observation of near surface objects, as well as solving many other fundamental and applied problems of remote sensing. One of the main questions is: how do the scattering amplitude and specific cross section behave for extremely small grazing angles? We consider the process of wave scattering by a statistically rough surface with the Neumann boundary condition. This model corresponds to sound scattering from a perfectly 'hard' surface (for example, the interface between air and the sea surface) or 'vertically' polarized electromagnetic waves scattered by a perfectly conducting one-dimensional (i.e. cylindrical) surface when the magnetic field vector is directed along the generating line of this cylindrical surface. We assume that the surface roughness is sufficiently small (in the sense of the Rayleigh parameter) and the surface is rigorously statistically homogeneous and therefore, infinite. We confine ourselves only to the first-order approximation of small perturbation theory and therefore consider every act of wave scattering in the Born approximation when the Bragg scattering process takes place. Only one resonant Fourier component of surface roughness is responsible for the scattering in a given direction. However, we take into account the attenuation of incident and scattered waves due to the multiple scattering processes on the path 'before' and 'after' a scattering event in a given direction. Also we consider every one of these multiple scattering events only in the Born approximation. The main result we have obtained is that for small grazing angles the scattering cross section of the diffuse component decreases as the second power of the grazing angles with respect to the incident and scattered directions, and as the fourth power of the grazing angle for the backscattering (radar) situation. Generalizing our results from plane-wave scattering to finite beams allows us to obtain the criterion on the beamwidth. For sufficiently narrow beams the multiple scattering processes do not play any role because of a short 'interaction path', and only single Bragg scattering determines the scattering amplitude (which does not tend to zero for small grazing angles). However, for sufficiently wide beams the result obtained for infinite plane waves becomes valid: due to the above-mentioned multiple scattering processes, the scattering amplitude tends to zero for small grazing angles. Consequently, the behaviour of the scattering cross section for small grazing angles depends on the radiation pattern width of the transmitting and receiving antennae: for sufficiently wide beams the scattering cross section decreases to zero at small grazing angles, but for narrow beams it tends to the finite non-zero value.     

Superresolution of three-dimensional optical imaging by use of evanescent waves

We simulate a three-dimensional optical diffraction tomography experiment in which superresolution is achieved by illuminating the object with evanescent waves generated by a prism. We show that accounting for multiple scattering between the object and the prism interface is mandatory to obtain superresolved images. Because the Born approximation leads to poor results, we propose a nonlinear inversion method for retrieving the map of permittivity of the object from the scattered far field. We analyze the sensitivity to noise of our algorithm and point out the importance of using incident propagative waves together with evanescent waves to improve the robustness of the reconstruction without losing the superresolution.     

Three dimensional analyses of scattering by pressure-release sinusoidal surfaces

Scattering by pressure-release sinusoidal surfaces in three dimensions is analyzed using the Fresnel phase approximation and realistic source and receiver directivity approximations. Geometrical shadowing and second-order scattering are explicitly included to explore the validity of the Kirchhoff approximation. No restrictions on the surface heights and slopes are made. The "goodness" of the resulting expressions is verified by requiring the pressure scattered by a sinusoidal surface to reduce to the image solution as the surface amplitude goes to zero. The first-order scattered pressure achieves a very good approximation to the image solution, and the second-order scattered pressure goes to zero, as expected, under this requirement. The theory is compared with available experimental scattering measurements, and the agreement is good. Because the slopes on the experimental surface are very steep, shadowing corrections are indispensible to achieving accurate first and second order scattering results. Shadowing has a greater impact on the scattering prediction than the second-order scattering contribution. This suggests that the Kirchhoff approximation may be more robust when incorporated into a theory including a detailed shadowing treatment as well as the Fresnel phase approximation and a good directivity approximation.     

An efficient method for computing backscattering from Born objects of arbitrary shape

A method is presented for efficiently computing the propagating pressure field backscattered by an arbitrarily shaped, weakly scattering, three-dimensional object. This is accomplished by drawing upon a previously reported relationship between the boundary condition on a two-dimensional radiating aperture and the pressure propagating along an axis normal to the aperture, and the fundamental theorem of diffraction tomography, which relates the Fourier transform of an object function to its scattered pressure field. Together, these two results are used to derive an integral formula that expresses the pressure field backscattered from an object as a one-dimensional Fourier transform of its scattering amplitude. This formula is then utilized to compute the backscattered pressure field from a uniform fluid sphere in the first Born approximation; the results of which are compared to the rigorous partial wave expansion.     

Reciprocity relations for scattering from quasi-homogeneous anisotropic media

Valid within the accuracy of the first-order Born approximation, we obtain the analytical expressions of the three-dimensional spatial Fourier transforms, which show the reciprocity relations for the scattering of a polychromatic plane wave incident upon a Gaussian-correlated, quasi-homogeneous, anisotropic scatterer. We find that the spectral degree of coherence of the scattered field is only related with the effective radius of the scatterer and the normalized spectral density of the scattered field is only related with the correlation length of the scatterer.     

Inversion of synthetic and experimental acoustical scattering data for the comparison 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-section 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 inversion is carried out by two methods. The first diffraction tomography (DT), exhibits the contrast function very conveniently and explicitly in the form of a wave number/incident angle Fourier transform of the far backscattered field and thus requires measurements of this field for incident waves all around the object and at all frequencies. The second discretized domain integral equation with Born approximation method, is numerically more intensive, but enables a wider choice of configurations and requires less measurements (one or several frequencies, one or several incident waves, choice of measurement points) than the DT method. A comparison of the two methods is carried out by inversion of both simulated and experimental scattered field data.     

Quantitative damage imaging using Lamb wave diffraction tomography

In this paper, we investigate the diffraction tomography for quantitative imaging damages of partly through-thickness holes with various shapes in isotropic plates by using converted and non-converted scattered Lamb waves generated numerically. Finite element simulations are carried out to provide the scattered wave data. The validity of the finite element model is confirmed by the comparison of scattering directivity pattern(SDP) of circle blind hole damage between the finite element simulations and the analytical results. The imaging method is based on a theoretical relation between the one-dimensional(1D) Fourier transform of the scattered projection and two-dimensional(2D) spatial Fourier transform of the scattering object. A quantitative image of the damage is obtained by carrying out the 2D inverse Fourier transform of the scattering object. The proposed approach employs a circle transducer network containing forward and backward projections, which lead to so-called transmission mode(TMDT) and reflection mode diffraction tomography(RMDT),respectively. The reconstructed results of the two projections for a non-converted S0 scattered mode are investigated to illuminate the influence of the scattering field data. The results show that Lamb wave diffraction tomography using the combination of TMDT and RMDT improves the imaging effect compared with by using only the TMDT or RMDT. The scattered data of the converted A0 mode are also used to assess the performance of the diffraction tomography method. It is found that the circle and elliptical shaped damages can still be reasonably identified from the reconstructed images while the reconstructed results of other complex shaped damages like crisscross rectangles and racecourse are relatively poor.     

Analytical and numerical studies of angular correlation function of waves scattered from randomly distributed cylinders

The analytical solution for the angular correlation function of scattered waves from randomly distributed infinitely long cylinders is obtained using the second-order approximation with a modified attenuation coefficient. The approach is based on the coherent summation of the scattered waves which preserves the interference effects such as backscattering enhancement. The modification of the transport attenuation coefficient includes the contribution due to the incoherent wave. By comparing with the exact numerical simulations, we found that the correction factor is given by (1-μ¯) which also appears in the diffusion equation. The present approach gives good agreement with numerical and experimental results.     

Extremely asymmetrical scattering of slab modes in periodic Bragg arrays

The steady-state extremely asymmetrical scattering of electromagnetic modes in a slab with a periodically corrugated boundary is analyzed theoretically. A new approach, based on allowance for the diffractional divergence of a scattered wave, is used with the approximation of slowly varying amplitudes and a Fourier analysis. The structure of the incident and scattered waves inside and outside the array is determined. The amplitudes of the scattered waves are found to be much larger than the amplitude of the incident wave. The typical time of relaxation to steady-state scattering is found to depend on the distance from the array boundary through which the incident wave enters the array. Conditions of applicability of the results obtained are also presented.     

Differential cross sections for elastic and inelastic positron scattering from alkali atoms

We have investigated positron scattering from the alkali atoms lithium, sodium, potassium and rubidium, focusing on the calculation of differential cross sections for elastic scattering and impact excitation. The results obtained with the two-state and five-state close-coupling method as well as the first-order distorted wave Born approximation are compared with each other and with some selected results for electron scattering. Numerical problems due to lack of, or numerically inaccurate, calculation of partial waves with large angular momenta are solved through semi-empirical fitting/extrapolation procedures.     

Spectral shifts produced by scattering of Rectangular Gaussian Schell Model sources from a deterministic medium

Within the accuracy of the first-order Born approximation, we investigate the scattering of Rectangular Gaussian Schell Model (RGSM) sources incident upon a deterministic medium. The analytical expression for the far-zone scattered spectrum is derived. Numerical results show that red shift or blue shift can be produced in the far-zone scattered spectrum, and the spectral shifts are mainly influenced by the scattering direction and the source parameters (i.e., the source width and the source correlation widths along the x and y directions).     

Numerical solution of an inverse medium scattering problem for Maxwell’s Equations at fixed frequency

Consider a time-harmonic electromagnetic plane wave incident on a medium enclosed by a bounded domain in R³${\mathbb{R}}^3$. In this paper, well-posedness of the variational problem for the direct scattering is examined. An energy estimate for the scattered field is obtained on which the Born approximation is based. A regularized recursive linearization method for the inverse medium scattering, which reconstructs the scatterer of an inhomogeneous medium from the boundary measurements of the scattered field, is developed. The algorithm requires only single-frequency data. Using an initial guess from the Born approximation, each update is obtained via continuation on the spatial frequency of a two-parameter family of plane waves by solving one direct problem and one adjoint problem of the Maxwell equation.     

Modeling of Microwave Images of Buried Cylindrical Objects

Tomographic methods of image reconstruction of two-dimensional cross-sections of volumetric objects in millimeter wavelengths band are suggested and considered.It is shown that in the frequency band under consideration, the images of investigated objects may be obtained by first-order diffraction tomography method (Born, Rytov or high frequency approximation of the first-order for scattered electromagnetic field).     

The IEM2M rough-surface scattering model for complex-permittivity scattering media

The integral equation model (IEM) was developed in the late 1980s and arguably became the most cited and implemented rough-surface scattering model in the field of radar remote sensing for Earth observation. It was derived by applying a second-order iteration in the incident electromagnetic field to the integral equations of the surface fields as given by Poggio and Miller. It is thus an extension of the first-order, Born approximation of these equations that produce the classical Kirchhoff approximation. The IEM has been subject to numerous amendments and variations over the last 20 years due to the imperfect introduction and handling of the Weyl representation of the spherical wave in its first version. The work presented here is a further development of the contribution made by the same author in 2001 (IEM2M), which was the first version of IEM able to blend analytically both the Kirchhoff and the small-perturbation approximations for the bistatic case. The improvement reported in this article is concerned with the inclusion of evanescent waves in the formulation of the model and the extension of the range of applicability of the second-order scattering terms to interfaces with complex-permittivity scattering media.     

Application of tomography method in millimeter wavelengths band I. Theoretical

Tomographic methods of image reconstruction of two-dimensional cross-sections of volumetric objects in millimeter wavelengths band are suggested and considered. It is shown that in the frequency band under consideration, the images of investigated objects may be obtained by first-order diffraction tomography method (Born, Rytov or high frequency approximation of the first-order for scattered electromagnetic field).     

Attenuation of ultrasonic waves in rolled metals

Scattering of ultrasonic waves in polycrystals with texture is studied in this article. The attenuations of the three wave modes are determined as a function of dimensionless frequency and propagation direction, respectively, for given orientation distribution coefficients (ODCs). The calculation is done in the case of a statistically orthorhombic sample made up of cubic crystallites. The wave propagation and scattering model is formulated by the Dyson equation using an anisotropic Green's function approach. Within the limits of the first-order smoothing approximation, the Dyson equation is solved in the spatial Fourier transform domain. The results presented are shown to be directional dependent, frequency dependent, and especially dependent on the texture coefficients (ODCs) for the quasilongitudinal and two quasishear waves. The theoretical results presented may be used to improve the understanding of the microstructure during recrystallization processes.