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The Mathematics of Medical Imaging

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Let us begin the process of trying to recover the values of an attenuation-coefficient function f(x, y) from the values of its Radon transform \(\,\mathcal{R}f\,\).

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Feeman, T.G. (2015). Back Projection. In: The Mathematics of Medical Imaging. Springer Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22665-1_3

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