“…As the initial ultrasound pressure is approximately proportional to the optical fluence, it is sufficient to reconstruct the initial pressure from the recorded ultrasound signals. Conventional reconstructive schemes, such as back-projection based methods [4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11] and time-reversal based methods [12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24], typically assume the sound speed is precisely known. This assumption however is not always fulfilled, and the precise sound speed distribution is often unknown.…”