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This paper describes a method for solving the inverse problem from impedance tomography to determine the conductivity from the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map. In the ``probe method'', the boundary of the unknown support \(D\) of the conductivity contrast is characterized as the set of all points which are the first hitting points of continuous curves which the author calls needles. The key observation of the method is the possibility to express the corresponding parameters by the data of the problem. This gives a fairly explicit reconstruction formula for the shape \(D\) of the support. In Section 3 the author reduces the problem to the impedance problem on the domain \(D\) where now -- because of the smoothness of the impedance on \(D\) -- results by Nachman are applicable. Sections 4 and 5 indicate how to extend the method to inverse problems in scattering theory and in elasticity. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0940.00033].