A direct algorithm for ultrasound imaging of internal corrosion

Abstract

We develop a direct (noniterative) algorithm to address the inverse problem of identifying a collection of disjoint internal corrosive parts of small Hausdorff measures in pipelines from exterior ultrasound boundary measurements. The method is based on an asymptotic expansion of the effect of the corrosion in terms of the size of the corrosive parts. We numerically test the validity of the asymptotic formula at high frequencies. We also propose a simple procedure to remove high-frequency instabilities in our inversion procedure. We illustrate our main findings with a variety of computational examples. © 2011 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.