Waves and imaging through complex media : [proceedings of the International Physics School on Waves and Imaging through Complex Media, Cargèse, France, August 30 - September 3, 1999

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. A collective effort has been made to present in this book 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. Front Matter....Pages i-x Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Wave Chaos and Multiple Scattering: A Story of Coherence....Pages 3-14 Towards Optical Biopsy: A Brief Introduction....Pages 15-26 Front Matter....Pages 27-27 Coherent Multiple Scattering in Disordered Media....Pages 29-52 Statistical Approach to Photon Localization....Pages 53-84 Front Matter....Pages 85-85 The Semiclassical Approach for Chaotic Systems....Pages 87-124 Random Matrix Theory of Scattering in Chaotic and Disordered Media....Pages 125-140 Wave Chaos in Elastodynamics....Pages 141-186 Time-Reversed Acoustics and Chaotic Scattering....Pages 187-210 Front Matter....Pages 211-211 Imaging Biological Tissue Using Photorefractive Holography and Fluorescence Lifetime....Pages 213-234 Simultaneous Optical Coherence and Two-Photon Fluorescence Microscopy....Pages 235-241 Low Coherence Interferometric Technique....Pages 243-250 Laser Optical Feedback Tomography....Pages 251-257 Imagery of Diffusing Media by Heterodyne Holography....Pages 259-266 Imaging through Diffusing Media by Image Parametric Amplification....Pages 267-273 Front Matter....Pages 275-275 Detection of Multiply Scattered Light in Optical Coherence Microscopy....Pages 277-298 Scattering by a Thin Slab: Comparison Between Radiative Transfer and Electromagnetic Simulation....Pages 299-305 Methods for the Inverse Problem in Optical Tomography....Pages 307-329 Inverse Problem for Stratified Scattering Media....Pages 331-337 Scattering on Multi-Scale Rough Surfaces....Pages 339-346 Front Matter....Pages 347-347 Imaging of Dynamic Heterogeneities in Multiple Light Scattering....Pages 349-367 Front Matter....Pages 347-347 Diffuse Laser Doppler Velocimetry from Multiple Scattering Media and Flowing Suspensions....Pages 369-382 High Resolution Acousto-Optic Imaging....Pages 383-388 Front Matter....Pages 389-389 Correlation of Speckle in Random Media....Pages 391-412 Dynamic Speckle Correlations....Pages 413-434 Spatio-Temporal Speckle Correlations for Imaging in Turbid Media....Pages 435-443 Speckle Correlations and Coherent Backscattering in Nonlinear Random Media....Pages 445-453 Back Matter....Pages 455-459