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The radon transform and medical imaging /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kuchment, Peter, 1949- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia, PA : Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, [2014]
Series:CBMS-NSF regional conference series in applied mathematics ; 85.
Subjects:
Radon transforms.
Geometric tomography.
Imaging systems in medicine.
Tomography > methods > Lectures.
Mathematics > Lectures.
Radon > Lectures.
Table of Contents:
  • Why use mathematics in medical imaging?
  • A brief and incomplete history of CT
  • Some major CT modalities and their features to watch for
  • "Standard" CT and x-ray and radon transforms
  • Emission tomography
  • Artifacts, incomplete data, microlocal analysis, and such
  • More about 3D radon and x-ray transforms
  • A brief overview of numerical methods
  • MRI, EIT, OT, elastography, UT
  • Thermo-, photo-, and optoacoustic tomography (TAT/PAT/OAT)
  • Ultrasound modulation in EIT and OT
  • Inverse problems with interior information.