# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

November  2009, 3(4): 649-675. doi: 10.3934/ipi.2009.3.649

## A family of inversion formulas in thermoacoustic tomography

 1 Department of Mathematics, Texas A & M University, Mailstop 3368, College Station, TX 77843-3368, United States

Received  February 2009 Revised  July 2009 Published  October 2009

We present a family of closed form inversion formulas in thermoacoustic tomography in the case of a constant sound speed. The formulas are presented in both time-domain and frequency-domain versions. As special cases, they imply most of the previously known filtered backprojection type formulas.
Citation: Linh V. Nguyen. A family of inversion formulas in thermoacoustic tomography. Inverse Problems & Imaging, 2009, 3 (4) : 649-675. doi: 10.3934/ipi.2009.3.649
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