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Numerical approximation of bioluminescence tomography based on a new formulation

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Bioluminescence tomography (BLT) is a promising new method in biomedical imaging. The BLT problem is an ill-posed inverse source problem, usually studied through a regularization technique. A new approach is proposed for solving the BLT problem based on an adjoint equation. Numerical examples show that the new formulation allows us to obtain accurate solutions.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, People’s Republic of China

    Xiaoliang Cheng & Rongfang Gong

  2. Department of Mathematics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 52242, USA

    Weimin Han

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Cheng, X., Gong, R. & Han, W. Numerical approximation of bioluminescence tomography based on a new formulation. J Eng Math 63, 121–133 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10665-008-9246-y

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