Exact series reconstruction in photoacoustic tomography with circular integrating detectors (Q1049722)

A method for photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is presented that uses circular integrals of the acoustic wave for the reconstruction of a three-dimensional image. In PAT an acoustic pressure wave \(p(x,t)\), inside an object, is generated by a pulse of non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation. The induced acoustic pressure satisfies the equations \(\partial^2_t p(x,t)=\Delta p(x,t)\), \((x,t) \in \mathbb R^3 \times (0,\infty)\); \(p(x,0)=f(x)\), \(\partial_t p(x,0)=0\), \(x \in \mathbb R^3\). PAT is concerned with recovering the initial pressure from measurements of \(p\) outside the support of \(f\).