Reflected waves carry information about the position, shape and physical properties of the geological discontinuities that originate them. The Ray+Born preserved amplitude migration gives, in a single step, an in-depth image of the discontinuities, and an estimate of the associated contrast in seismic properties. From the theoretical point of view, we show that a slight assumption on the S velocity field allows the simultaneous inversion of pp reflected and PS converted waves, and the optimization of the summations in the frequency space involved when anelastic attenuation is accounted for. The strict application of the Ray+Born migration on synthetics associated with a real experiment on Vesuvius leads to imperfect results: The amplitude o...