Thermoacoustic tomography with detectors on an open curve: an efficient reconstruction algorithm

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Publication:3537477

DOI10.1088/0266-5611/24/5/055021zbMATH Open1180.35567arXiv0807.1355OpenAlexW2057861384MaRDI QIDQ3537477FDOQ3537477


Authors: Leonid A. Kunyansky Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 6 November 2008

Published in: Inverse Problems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: 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 3-D) because frequently the region of interest cannot be completely surrounded by the detectors, as it happens, for example, in breast imaging. We present an efficient numerical algorithm for solving this problem in 2-D (similar methods are applicable in the 3-D case). Our method is based on the numerical approximation of plane waves by certain single layer potentials related to the acquisition geometry. After the densities of these potentials have been precomputed, each subsequent image reconstruction has the complexity of the regular filtration backprojection algorithm for the classical Radon transform. The peformance of the method is demonstrated in several numerical examples: one can see that the algorithm produces very accurate reconstructions if the data are accurate and sufficiently well sampled, on the other hand, it is sufficiently stable with respect to noise in the data.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0807.1355




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