Diffraction tomography is an
inverse scattering
In mathematics and physics, the inverse scattering problem is the problem of determining characteristics of an object, based on data of how it scatters incoming radiation or particles. It is the inverse problem to the direct scattering problem, w ...
technique used to find the shape of a scattering object by illuminating it with probing waves and recording the reflections. It is based on the
diffraction slice theorem and assumes that the scatterer is weak. It is closely related to
X-ray tomography.
Scattering theory
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