Application of the method of smooth perturbations to the solution of problems of optical tomography of strongly scattering objects containing absorbing macroinhomogeneities

Abstract

It is shown that the solution of the nonstationary diffusion equation by the Rytov method of smooth perturbations can be represented in the form of a path integral taken along the mean photon trajectory. This form is convenient for the tomographic reconstruction of the distribution of macroinhomogeneities in a strongly scattering medium.