A family of inversion formulas in thermoacoustic tomography

Inverse Problems and Imaging

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 649-675

  Nguyen, Linh V ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Inversion formulas; Spherical means; Tomography; Wave equation

Indexed keywords

EID: 73649137536     PISSN: 19308337     EISSN: 19308345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/ipi.2009.3.649     Document Type: Article

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