Uniqueness of reconstruction and an inversion procedure for thermoacoustic and photoacoustic tomography with variable sound speed

Inverse Problems

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 2089-2102

  Agranovsky, Mark ^a   Kuchment, Peter ^b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; NUMERICAL METHODS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ANALYTIC RECONSTRUCTION; INVERSION PROCEDURE; PHOTOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; POINT DETECTORS;

INVERSE PROBLEMS;

EID: 41149171074     PISSN: 02665611     EISSN: 13616420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0266-5611/23/5/016     Document Type: Article

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