International Society for Industrial Process Tomography

Detection of Scattering and Absorption by NIR Tomography

Thomas Dierkes

Institut fu..r Numerische und instrumentelle Mathematik Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Mu..nster Einsteinstraf3e 62, 48149 Mu..nster, Germany

Email: dierkes@math.uni-muenster.de

Abstract - In this paper we present an iterative method for solving the inverse problem to reconstruct the distribution of both scattering and absorption simultaneously from data given by near infrared tomography.

Keywords : Inverse Problems, Tomography, Diffusion approximation