Computational Radiology and Imaging : Therapy and Diagnostics /

The articles collected in this volume are based on lectures given at the IMA Workshop, "Computational Radiology and Imaging: Therapy and Diagnostics", March 17-21, 1997. Introductory articles by the editors have been added. The focus is on inverse problems involving electromagnetic radiati...

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Main Author: Börgers, Christoph
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Natterer, Frank
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 1999.
Series:IMA volumes in mathematics and its applications ; 110.
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Table of Contents:
  • The radiation therapy planning problem
  • Mathematical models for medical imaging
  • Articles by Workshop Speakers.-Tomography through the transport equation
  • A general framework for iterative reconstruction algorithms in optical tomography, using a finite element method
  • Scattered radiation in nuclear medicine: A case study on the Boltzmann transport equation
  • Mathematical aspects of radiation therapy treatment planning: Continuous inversion versus full discretization and optimization versus feasibility
  • Early results on general vertex sets and truncated projections in cone-beam tomography
  • Mathematical problems in microwave medical imaging
  • Image reconstruction from experimental data in diffusion tomography
  • The Application of the x-ray transform to 3D conformal radio therapy
  • Optimization methods for radiation therapy plans
  • Fully three-dimensional reconstruction in electron microscopy.