2-DIMENSIONAL OPTICAL DIFFRACTION TOMOGRAPHY FOR OBJECTS EMBEDDED IN A RANDOM MEDIUM

Starting from two-dimensional optical diffraction tomography (ODT) for an object embedded in a non-absorbing and non-scattering medium, we c onsider the case in which the object is embedded in a randomly scatter ing medium. We use the 'effective wavenumber' K in the random medium a nd reasonable approximations to study both the forward problem and the inverse problem (i.e. the reconstruction of the object) and present r elevant computer simulation results. For practical measurements of tra nsmitted fields we discuss the possibility of using the coherent detec tion imaging (CDI) technique as a means of realizing ODT in a random m edium.