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17.1 Introduction

e inverse problem in optical tomography covers the topic of

image reconstruction in particular, or, slightly more generally,

the recovery from measured data of properties of a medium,

which may include shapes, volumes, dynamic features, and

others. In a typical experiment, a highly scattering medium is

illuminated by a narrowly collimated beam and the light that

propagates through the medium is collected by an array of

detectors. ere are many variants of this basic scenario. For

instance, the source may be pulsed or time-harmonic, coher-

ent or incoherent, and the illumination may be spatially struc-

tured ...