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My PhD Thesis, PDF 3MB - Stanford University

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Figure 4.7 Synthetic test on 2-D attenuation tomography. (a) is the<br />

original model. There are two low Q-value areas in this model. (b) is the<br />

reconstructed Q-value distribution.<br />

It seems that the finite difference or finite element method could be a good choice<br />

for this 2-D forward modeling. In fact, the grid dispersion in these numerical methods<br />

would be a problem with this attenuation simulation. In the frequency shift method, the<br />

wave dispersion information is used to estimate attenuation. Therefore, the grid<br />

dispersion in the numerical methods would introduce numerical error in the simulation.<br />

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