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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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Börgers, Christoph (Editor), Natterer, Frank (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer New York 1999, 1999
Edition:1st ed. 1999
Series:The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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 radiotherapy
  • Optimization methods for radiation therapy plans
  • Fully three-dimensional reconstruction in electron microscopy