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Estimation Of Object Shape From Scattered Field

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Title Estimation Of Object Shape From Scattered Field
 
Creator Buvaneswari, A
 
Subject Applied Optics
Image Processing
Tomography
Non-diffracting Tomography
Diffraction Tomography
On Surface Radiation Condition(0SRC)
Polygonal Objects
Parameter Estimation
Scattered Field
Fourier Diffraction Theorem (FDT)
Scattering Objects
Object Shape
 
Description The scattered field from an object, when illuminated with ultrasound, is useful in
the reconstruction of it's cross section - a problem broadly classified as 'tomography'. In
many situations of medical imaging, we will be interested in getting to know the location
and the extent of growth of the inhomogeneity. The Maximum Likelihood (ML) estimation of the location and the shape parameters (of scale and orientation angle), has been done along with the corresponding CR bounds, for the case of weakly scattering objects, where the Fourier Diffraction Theorem(FDT) holds. It has been found that the a-priori information of a reference object function helps in drastic reduction of the number of receivers and illuminations required.

For a polygonal object, the shape is specified, when the corner locations are
known. We have formulated the problem as, estimation of the frequencies of sum of
undamped sinusoids. The result is a substantial reduction in the number of illuminations
and receivers required. For acoustically soft and rigid polygons, where the FDT does not
hold, the necessary theory is developed to show the dependence of the scattered field on the corner location, using an On Surface Radiation Condition(OSRC). The corner locations are estimated along similar lines, to the one adopted for the weakly scattering objects.
 
Publisher Indian Institute of Science
 
Contributor Naidu, P S
 
Date 2005-09-27T09:13:22Z
2005-09-27T09:13:22Z
2005-09-27T09:13:22Z
1995-11
 
Type Electronic Thesis and Dissertation
 
Format 8332810 bytes
application/pdf
 
Identifier http://etd.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2005/147
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Language en
 
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