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We study numerical methods of tomography in domains with a reflecting obstacle. It will be shown that tomography with sets containing both broken rays, i.e. rays reflecting at the obstacle, as well as unbroken rays, has a smaller error…

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In this article a nonlocal analogue of an inverse problem in diffuse optical tomography is considered. We show that whenever one has given two pairs of diffusion and absorption coefficients $(\gamma_j,q_j)$, $j=1,2$, such that there holds…

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Four-dimensional computed tomography (4DCT) is essential for medical imaging applications like radiotherapy, which demand precise respiratory motion representation. Traditional methods for reconstructing 4DCT data suffer from artifacts and…

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The iterative refinement method (IRM) has been very successfully applied in many different fields for examples the modern quantum chemical calculation and CT image reconstruction. It is proved that the refinement method can create an exact…

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In this contribution, we are concerned with model order reduction in the context of iterative regularization methods for the solution of inverse problems arising from parameter identification in elliptic partial differential equations. Such…

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In this paper we provide a mathematical model for imaging an anisotropic, orthotropic medium with Polarization-Sensitive Optical Coherence Tomography (PS-OCT). The imaging problem is formulated as an inverse scattering problem in three…

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The article presents an efficient image reconstruction algorithm for single scattering optical tomography (SSOT) in circular geometry of data acquisition. This novel medical imaging modality uses photons of light that scatter once in the…

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To date, high-resolution (< 1 nm) imaging of extended objects in three-dimensions (3D) has not been possible. A restriction known as the Crowther criterion forces a tradeoff between object size and resolution for 3D reconstructions by…

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In this article, we investigate an inverse problem for a semi-linear wave equation posed on bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$, with $n \geq 2$. Our primary objective is to reconstruct the damping coefficient, the linear and nonlinear…

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