We consider the problem of finding, from the final data u(x, T ) = ϕ(x), the temperature function u(x, t), x ∈ (0, π), t ∈ [0, T ] satisfies the following nonlinear systemThe nonlinear problem is severely ill-posed. We shall improve the quasi-boundary value method to regularize the problem and to get some error estimates. The approximation solution is calculated by the contraction principle. A numerical experiment is given.