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N. J. McCormick
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 112 | Number 3 | November 1992 | Pages 185-198
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE112-185
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Recent solutions to inverse problems are reviewed for the estimation of optical properties or the thickness of a medium, or the presence of a spatially distributed source or an obscured object. Time-independent and time-dependent applications are considered, and both closed-form (explicit) and iterative (implicit) methods of solution are described.
