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    • Medical Imaging
    • Computational Physics
    • Applied Mathematics

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    • Iterative image reconstruction in photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is computationally intensive.
    • Existing methods struggle with heterogeneous media, absorption, and dispersion.
    • Minimizing nonsmooth or bound-constrained convex functions requires efficient algorithms.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop a faster and more efficient iterative image reconstruction method for PAT.
    • To address challenges posed by heterogeneous media, absorption, and dispersion.
    • To enhance the performance of total-variation penalized algorithms like ISTA and FISTA.

    Main Methods:

    • A line search multi-grid (MG) method is proposed for full-wave iterative image reconstruction.
    • The method selects search directions using gradients at the target level or approximate error corrections at coarser levels.
    • Analytical adjoints are derived from the first-order acoustic wave system to incorporate absorption and dispersion.

    Main Results:

    • The proposed MG method was tested with total-variation penalized Iterative Shrinkage Thresholding algorithm (ISTA) and FISTA.
    • Demonstrated significant improvements in the speed of iterative image reconstruction.
    • Effectively incorporated absorption and dispersion into the reconstruction process.

    Conclusions:

    • The line search multi-grid method shows great potential for accelerating PAT image reconstruction.
    • The approach is effective in handling complex media with absorption and dispersion.
    • Offers a promising direction for enhancing computational efficiency in PAT imaging.