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The aim of this chapter is to present the essential physical ideas that are needed to describe the propagation of light in a random medium. We also discuss various direct reconstruction methods for several inverse problems in optical tomography at mesoscopic and macroscopic scales.
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This work was supported by the NSF under the grants DMS-0554100 and EEC-0615857, and by the NIH under the grant R01EB004832.
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Schotland, J.C. (2012). Direct Reconstruction Methods in Optical Tomography. In: Ammari, H. (eds) Mathematical Modeling in Biomedical Imaging II. Lecture Notes in Mathematics(), vol 2035. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22990-9_1
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