Recovery of Small Inhomogeneities from the Scattering Amplitude at a Fixed Frequency

We rigorously derive the leading order term in the asymptotic expansion of the scattering amplitude of a collection of a finite number of dielectric inhomogeneities of small diameter. We then apply this asymptotic formula for the purpose of identifying the location and certain properties of the shapes of the small inhomogeneities from scattering amplitude measurements at a fixed frequency. Our main idea is to reduce this reconstruction problem to the calculation of an inverse Fourier transform.

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