Some uniqueness theorems for mammography-related time-domain inverse problems for the diffusion equation

Inverse Problems

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 447-459

  Romanov, Vladimir G ^a,c   He, Sailing ^a,b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SOBOLEV INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Russian Federation)

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EID: 0009543708     PISSN: 02665611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0266-5611/16/2/312     Document Type: Article

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