Download or read book The Universality of the Radon Transform written by Leon Ehrenpreis and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2003 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a leading scholar in mathematics, this monograph discusses the Radon transform, a field that has wide ranging applications to X-ray technology, partial differential equations, nuclear magnetic resonance scanning and tomography. In this book, Ehrenpreis focuses on recent research and highlights the strong relationship between high-level pure mathematics and applications of the Radon transform to areas such as medical imaging.