Abstract
In this paper, we study an inverse problem for an inhomogeneous time-fractional diffusion equation in the one-dimensional real-positive semiaxis domain. Such a problem is obtained from the classical diffusion equation by replacing the first-order time derivative by the Caputo fractional derivative. After we show that the inverse problem is severely ill posed, we apply a modified regularization method based on the solution in the frequency domain to solve the inverse problem. A convergence estimate is also derived. We present two numerical examples to show the efficiency of the method.