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The Identification Problem for the attenuated X-ray transform

Analysis of PDEs 2011-05-10 v1 Differential Geometry

Abstract

We study the problem of recovery both the attenuation aa and the source ff in the attenuated X-ray transform in the plane. We study the linearization as well. It turns out that there are natural Hamiltonian flow that determines which singularities we can recover. If the perturbations δa\delta a, δf\delta f are supported in a compact set that is non-trapping for that flow, then the problem is well posed. Otherwise, it may not be, and least in the case of radial aa, ff, it is not. We present uniqueness and non-uniqueness results for both the linearized and the non-linear problem; as well as a H\"older stability estimate.

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@article{arxiv.1105.1489,
  title  = {The Identification Problem for the attenuated X-ray transform},
  author = {Plamen Stefanov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1105.1489},
  year   = {2011}
}
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