A novel tomographic method that can be applied in strongly scattering optical media is proposed. 1-MHz focused ultrasound is used to tag the scattering photons in the biological tissue; it carries a 10-KHz sinusoidal wave to act as a detection wave through amplitude-modulation (AM). The scattering photons that come from the focused zone carry the modulated information. Their optoelectronic signal is demodulated by real-time FFT. By detecting and discriminating ultrasound-modulated information carried by scattered photons, the optical tomographic images of the media simulating biological tissue and of a buried object are reconstructed by the AM spectral intensity. This ultrasound-tagged optical tomography can be applied to tissue structures with different optical parameters. For the first time, by using this method, we obtained the tomographic image of a 5 mm-wide soft rubber cube buried in a biological tissue-simulating media with a detecting depth of 30 mm.