We report a universal back-projection formula for three-dimensional photoacoustic computed tomography in three types of imaging geometries: planar, spherical, and cylindrical surfaces. A solid-angle weighting factor is introduced in the back-projection formula to compensate for the variations of detection views. Numerical simulation demonstrates the performance of the algorithm.
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Xu et al. (2005) studied this question.