Download or read book The Radon Transform and Local Tomography written by Alexander G. Ramm and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1996-02-06 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past decade, the field of image processing has made tremendous advances. One type of image processing that is currently of particular interest is "tomographic imaging," a technique for computing the density function of a body, or discontinuity surfaces of this function. Today, tomography is widely used, and has applications in such fields as medicine, engineering, physics, geophysics, and security. The Radon Transform and Local Tomography clearly explains the theoretical, computational, and practical aspects of applied tomography. It includes sufficient background information to make it essentially self-contained for most readers.