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Thermoacoustic tomography arising in brain imaging

Analysis of PDEs 2015-05-19 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We study the mathematical model of thermoacoustic and photoacoustic tomography when the sound speed has a jump across a smooth surface. This models the change of the sound speed in the skull when trying to image the human brain. We derive an explicit inversion formula in the form of a convergent Neumann series under the assumptions that all singularities from the support of the source reach the boundary.

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@article{arxiv.1009.1687,
  title  = {Thermoacoustic tomography arising in brain imaging},
  author = {Plamen Stefanov and Gunther Uhlmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1009.1687},
  year   = {2015}
}
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