Current Topics Seminar
| Speaker | Justin Tittelfitz |
| Title | Thermoacoustic Tomography |
| Date | January 12 4:00pm PDL C-36 |
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In this talk, we will discuss an emerging method of medical imaging known as thermoacousitc tomography.
Mathematically, this is an inverse problem whose goal is that of recovering the initial displacement ƒ
for a solution u of a wave equation in [0,T] X R^3, given measurements of u on [0,T] x δ Ω,
where Ω in R^3 is some bounded domain containing the support of ƒ.
The main objective of this talk will be to discuss some of the techniques used to solve this problem; techniques which are frequently utilizied in the general study of PDE. As such, no prior knowledge of the topic will be assumed, and this talk should be accessible to a general mathematical audience.
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