Diffraction tomography

{{distinguish|Diffraction topography}} {{more citations needed|date=July 2025}} '''Diffraction tomography''' is an inverse scattering technique used to find the shape of a scattering object by illuminating it with probing waves and recording the reflections.<ref>{{Citation |last=Devaney |first=A. J. |title=Diffraction Tomography |date=1985 |work=Inverse Methods in Electromagnetic Imaging: Part 2 |pages=1107–1135 |editor-last=Boerner |editor-first=Wolfgang-M. |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5271-3_24 |access-date=2025-07-05 |place=Dordrecht |publisher=Springer Netherlands |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-94-009-5271-3_24 |isbn=978-94-009-5271-3 |editor2-last=Brand |editor2-first=Hans |editor3-last=Cram |editor3-first=Leonard A. |editor4-last=Gjessing |editor4-first=Dag T.|url-access=subscription }}</ref> It is based on the diffraction slice theorem and assumes that the scatterer is weak.<ref>{{cite arXiv | last1=Müller | first1=Paul | last2=Schürmann | first2=Mirjam | last3=Guck | first3=Jochen | title=The Theory of Diffraction Tomography | date=2015 | class=q-bio.QM | eprint=1507.00466 }}</ref> It is closely related to X-ray tomography.<ref>{{Citation |last=Wolf |first=Emil |title=5 - Principles and development of diffraction tomography |date=1996-01-01 |work=Trends in Optics |pages=83–110 |editor-last=Consortini |editor-first=Anna |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780121860301500072 |access-date=2025-07-05 |series=Lasers and Optical Engineering |place=San Diego |publisher=Academic Press |doi=10.1016/b978-012186030-1/50007-2 |isbn=978-0-12-186030-1|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

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Category:Scattering theory

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