The Radon Transform and Some of Its Applications

Deans (physics, University of South Florida) provides basic information about the properties of the Radon transform, gives examples illustrating some of its more subtle points, documents a wide variety of applications of the transform, and offers a guide to literature related to the transform. Material is written to be accessible to those with only a basic undergraduate background in mathematics such as that normally required by medical students, engineers, or physicists. The book helps fill in the gap between highly rigorous treatments and applications, and will be of interest to the theorist who is interested in applications, as well as the experimentalist who wishes to gain a better understanding of the theoretical foundations but is not trained as a professional mathematician. This Dover edition is an unabridged republication of the 1993 revised edition of the work (containing corrections and updated references) published by Krieger Publishing Company, Malabar, Florida. The book was first published in 1983 by John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York. Annotation c2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)