The second-order born approximation in diffuse optical tomography

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Abstract

Diffuse optical tomography is used to find the optical parameters of a turbid medium with infrared red light. The problem is mathematically formulated as a nonlinear problem to find the solution for the diffusion operator mapping the optical coefficients to the photon density distribution on the boundary of the region of interest, which is also represented by the Born expansion with respect to the unperturbed photon densities and perturbed optical coefficients. We suggest a new method of finding the solution by using the second-order Born approximation of the operator. The error analysis for the suggested method based on the second-order Born approximation is presented and compared with the conventional linearized method based on the first-order Born approximation. The suggested method has better convergence order than the linearized method, and this is verified in the numerical implementation.

Original languageEnglish
Article number637209
JournalJournal of Applied Mathematics
Volume2012
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012

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