Thermoacoustic tomography and the circular Radon transform: Exact inversion formula

Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 635-655

  Haltmeier, Markus ^a   Scherzer, Otmar ^a   Burgholzer, Peter ^b   Nuster, Robert ^c   Paltauf, Guenther ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b Upper Austrian Research GmbH   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Hankel transform; Image reconstruction; Line detectors; Optoacoustic; Photoacoustic; Radon transform; Thermoacoustic tomography; Wave equation

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247398307     PISSN: 02182025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218202507002054     Document Type: Article

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