Numerical reconstruction of radiative sources in an absorbing and non-diffusing scattering medium in two dimensions

Abstract: We consider the two dimensional quantitative imaging problem of recovering a radiative source inside an absorbing and scattering medium from knowledge of the outgoing radiation measured at the boundary. The medium has an anisotropic scattering property that is neither negligible nor large enough for the diffusion approximation to hold. We present the numerical realization of the authors' recently proposed reconstruction method. For scattering kernels of finite Fourier content in the angular variable, the solution is exact. The feasibility of the proposed algorithms is demonstrated in several numerical experiments, including simulated scenarios for parameters meaningful in optical molecular imaging.