# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

May  2012, 6(2): 315-320. doi: 10.3934/ipi.2012.6.315

## Photo-acoustic inversion in convex domains

 1 University of Münster, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Einsteinstrasse 72, 48159 Münster

Received  April 2011 Revised  April 2012 Published  May 2012

In photo-acoustics one has to reconstruct a function from its averages over spheres around points on the measurement surface. For special surfaces inversion formulas are known. In this paper we derive a formula for surfaces that bound smooth convex domains. It reconstructs the function modulo a smoothing integral operator. For special surfaces the integral operator vanishes, providing exact reconstruction.
Citation: Frank Natterer. Photo-acoustic inversion in convex domains. Inverse Problems & Imaging, 2012, 6 (2) : 315-320. doi: 10.3934/ipi.2012.6.315
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