Applied and Interdisciplinary Mathematics Seminar

University of Michigan

Fall 2007
Thursday, 8 November, 4:10-5:00pm, 1311 EECS Building

Optical Tomography

John C. Schotland

The University of Pennsylvania


Abstract

There is considerable interest in the development of optical methods for biomedical imaging. The physical problem consists of recovering the optical properties of a medium probed by multiply-scattered light. This talk will review recent work on related inverse scattering problems for the radiative transport equation and fast image reconstruction algorithms for large data sets. Numerical simulations and experimental data from model systems will be used to illustrate the results.