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Wave propagation issues in medicine and environmental health are discussed. The need for advances in direct scattering, inverse scattering and electromagnetic localization methods is outlined and applications are sketched that appear interesting and important. Examples of frequency domain inversion are presented and issues concerning uniqueness of inversion are addressed.
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Albanese, R.A. (1997). Wave Propagation Inverse Problems in Medicine and Environmental Health. In: Chavent, G., Sacks, P., Papanicolaou, G., Symes, W.W. (eds) Inverse Problems in Wave Propagation. The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications, vol 90. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1878-4_1
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