Mathematical Challenges Arising in Thermoacoustic Tomography with Line Detectors
From MaRDI portal
Publication:6477985
arXivmath/0610155MaRDI QIDQ6477985FDOQ6477985
Authors: Markus Haltmeier, Thomas Fidler 
Publication date: 4 October 2006
Abstract: Thermoacoustic computed tomography (thermoacoustic CT) has the potential to become a mayor non-invasive medical imaging method. In this paper we derive a general mathematical framework of a novel measuring setup introduced in [P. Burgholzer, C. Hofer, G. Paltauf, M. Haltmeier, and O. Scherzer, "Thermoacoustic tomography with integrating area and line detectors", IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, 52 (2005)], that uses line shaped detectors instead of the usual point like ones. We show that the three dimensional thermoacoustic imaging problem reduces to the mathematical problem of reconstructing the initial data of the two dimensional wave equation from boundary measurements of its solution. We derive and analyze an analytic reconstruction formula which allows for fast numerical implementation.
Wave equation (35L05) Radon transform (44A12) Numerical methods for inverse problems for integral equations (65R32)
This page was built for publication: Mathematical Challenges Arising in Thermoacoustic Tomography with Line Detectors
Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q6477985)
