Inversion of circular means and the wave equation on convex planar domains

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Abstract: We study the problem of recovering the initial data of the two dimensional wave equation from values of its solution on the boundary partialOm of a smooth convex bounded domain OmsubsetR2. As a main result we establish back-projection type inversion formulas that recover any initial data with support in Om modulo an explicitly computed smoothing integral operator KOm. For circular and elliptical domains the operator KOm is shown to vanish identically and hence we establish exact inversion formulas of the back-projection type in these cases. Similar results are obtained for recovering a function from its mean values over circles with centers on partialOm. Both reconstruction problems are, amongst others, essential for the hybrid imaging modalities photoacoustic and thermoacoustic tomography.




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