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Practical applications of thermoacoustic tomography require numerical inversion of the spherical mean Radon transform with the centers of integration spheres occupying an open surface. Solution of this problem is needed (both in 2-D and…
The inverse source problem arising in photoacoustic tomography and in several other coupled-physics modalities is frequently solved by iterative algorithms. Such algorithms are based on the minimization of a certain cost functional. In…
A method for photoacoustic tomography is presented that uses circular integrals of the acoustic wave for the reconstruction of a three-dimensional image. Image reconstruction is a two-step process: In the first step data from a stack of…
We investigate the inverse source problem for the wave equation, arising in photo- and thermoacoustic tomography. There exist quite a few theoretically exact inversion formulas explicitly expressing solution of this problem in terms of the…
In tomographic reconstruction, the goal is to reconstruct an unknown object from a collection of line integrals. Given a complete sampling of such line integrals for various angles and directions, explicit inverse formulas exist to…
The paper surveys recent progress in establishing uniqueness and developing inversion formulas and algorithms for the thermoacoustic tomography. In mathematical terms, one deals with a rather special inverse problem for the wave equation.…
An explicit series solution is proposed for the inversion of the spherical mean Radon transform. Such an inversion is required in problems of thermo- and photo- acoustic tomography. Closed-form inversion formulae are currently known only…
The problem of image reconstruction in thermoacoustic tomography requires inversion of a generalized Radon transform, which integrates the unknown function over circles in 2D or spheres in 3D. The paper investigates implementation of the…
We consider the inverse source problem of thermo- and photoacoustic tomography, with data registered on an open surface partially surrounding the source of acoustic waves. Under the assumption of constant speed of sound we develop an…
Multidimensional imaging, capturing image data in more than two dimensions, has been an emerging field with diverse applications. Due to the limitation of two-dimensional detectors in obtaining the high-dimensional image data, computational…
The paper contains a simple approach to reconstruction in Thermoacoustic and Photoacoustic Tomography. The technique works for any geometry of point detectors placement and for variable sound speed satisfying a non-trapping condition. A…
A unified method for three-dimensional reconstruction of objects from transmission images collected at multiple illumination directions is described. The method may be applicable to experimental conditions relevant to absorption-based,…
The article suggests a new approach what is called a consistency method for the inversion of the spherical Radon transform in 2D with detectors on a line. It is known that there is not an exact inversion formula in 2D. By means of the…
Almost all known image reconstruction algorithms for photoacoustic and thermoacoustic tomography assume that the acoustic waves leave the region of interest after a finite time. This assumption is reasonable if the reflections from the…
Ultrasound Tomography has seen a revival of interest in the past decade, especially for breast imaging, due to improvements in both ultrasound and computing hardware. In particular, three-dimensional ultrasound tomography, a fully…
Inverse scattering involving microwave and ultrasound waves require numerical solution of nonlinear optimization problem. To alleviate the computational burden of a full three-dimensional (3-D) inverse problem, it is a common practice to…
Thermoacoustic computed tomography (thermoacoustic CT) has the potential to become a mayor non-invasive medical imaging method. In this paper we derive a general mathematical framework of a novel measuring setup introduced in [P.…
This paper is concerned with a practical inverse problem of simultaneously reconstructing the surface heat flux and the thickness of a solid structure from the associated ultrasonic measurements. In a thermoacoustic coupling model, the…
A new algorithm for the stable solution of a three-dimensional scalar inverse problem of acoustic sounding of an inhomogeneous medium in a cylindrical region is proposed. The data of the problem is the complex amplitude of the wave field,…
Iterative model-based image reconstruction in photoacoustic tomography (PAT) enables principled incorporation of detector physics, object-related priors, and complex acquisition strategies. However, for three-dimensional (3D) imaging…