• Accepted Paper

Self-portrait of the focusing process in speckle: III. tailoring complex spatio-temporal focusing laws to overcome reverberations in reflection imaging

Elsa Giraudat, Flavien Bureau, William Lambert, Mathias Fink, and Alexandre Aubry

Phys. Rev. Research - Accepted 6 November, 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/t2yf-3z9n

Abstract

This is the third article in a series of three dealing with the exploitation of speckle for imaging purposes. In complex media, a fundamental limit is the multiple scattering phenomenon that completely blurs the imaging process in depth. Matrix imaging can provide a relevant framework for solving this problem. As it proved to be an adequate tool for probing reverberations in speckle [E. Giraudat et al., submitted to Phys. Rev. Research], we will show how it can be used to tailor complex spatio-temporal focusing laws to monitor the interference between the multiply-reflected paths and the ballistic component of the wave-field. To do so, we extend the distortion matrix concept to the frequency domain. An iterative phase reversal process operated from the space-time Fourier space is then used to compensate for reverberations and optimize both the axial and transverse resolution of the confocal image. Here, we first present an experimental proof-of-concept consisting in imaging a tissue-mimicking phantom through a reverberating plate before outlining the potential and the limits of this strategy for transcranial ultrasound and beyond.

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