The author was partially supported by NSF grant MCS 8901203. The author is indebted to Paul Burstein of Skiametrics for much support and practical information including pointing out the application to large rocket motors, suggesting appropriate phantoms to test and appropriate amount of data to take, as well as useful comments to the manuscript. The author thanks Charles Dunkl for the suggestion to use Cesaro summability to help get rid of Gibbs phenomenon in polynomial sums. The author is indebted to the Institut für Numerische und instrumentelle Mathematik der Üniversitat Münster for the display programs for figures 1 and 2, to Tufts University undergraduate Scott Turner for his help testing the algorithm, as well as to Peter Maass for clever suggestions about the algorithm and display programs.
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Quinto, E.T. (1991). Computed tomography and rockets. In: Herman, G.T., Louis, A.K., Natterer, F. (eds) Mathematical Methods in Tomography. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1497. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0084523
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