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Photoacoustic Imaging Taking into Account Attenuation

Analysis of PDEs 2011-11-29 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

First, we review existing attenuation models and discuss their causality properties, which we believe to be essential for algorithms for inversion with attenuated data. Then, we survey causality properties of common attenuation models. We also derive integro-differential equations which the attenuated waves are satisfying. In addition we discuss the ill--conditionness of the inverse problem for calculating the unattenuated wave from the attenuated one.

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@article{arxiv.1009.4350,
  title  = {Photoacoustic Imaging Taking into Account Attenuation},
  author = {Richard Kowar and Otmar Scherzer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1009.4350},
  year   = {2011}
}