Tomography, Impedance Imaging, and Integral Geometry

Tomography, Impedance Imaging, and Integral Geometry
Author: Eric Todd Quinto
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 300
Release: 1991
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780821896990

One of the most exciting features of tomography is the strong relationship between high-level pure mathematics (such as harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, microlocal analysis, and group theory) and applications to medical imaging, impedance imaging, radiotherapy, and industrial nondestructive evaluation. This book contains the refereed proceedings of the AMS-SIAM Summer Seminar on Tomography, Impedance Imaging, and Integral Geometry, held at Mount Holyoke College in June 1993. A number of common themes are found among the papers. Group theory is fundamental both to tomographic sampling theorems and to pure Radon transforms. Microlocal and Fourier analysis are important for research in all three fields. Differential equations and integral geometric techniques are useful in impedance imaging. In short, a common body of mathematics can be used to solve dramatically different problems in pure and applied mathematics. Radon transforms can be used to model impedance imaging problems. These proceedings include exciting results in all three fields represented at the conference.

Integral Geometry, Radon Transforms and Complex Analysis

Integral Geometry, Radon Transforms and Complex Analysis
Author: Carlos A. Berenstein
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2006-11-14
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3540697020

This book contains the notes of five short courses delivered at the "Centro Internazionale Matematico Estivo" session "Integral Geometry, Radon Transforms and Complex Analysis" held in Venice (Italy) in June 1996: three of them deal with various aspects of integral geometry, with a common emphasis on several kinds of Radon transforms, their properties and applications, the other two share a stress on CR manifolds and related problems. All lectures are accessible to a wide audience, and provide self-contained introductions and short surveys on the subjects, as well as detailed expositions of selected results.

Integral Geometry and Tomography

Integral Geometry and Tomography
Author: Andrew Markoe
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2006
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0821837559

This volume consists of a collection of papers that brings together fundamental research in Radon transforms, integral geometry, and tomography. It grew out of the Special Session at a Sectional Meeting of the American Mathematical Society in 2004. The book contains very recent work of some of the top researchers in the field. The articles in the book deal with the determination of properties of functions on a manifold by integral theoretic methods, or by determining the geometricstructure of subsets of a manifold by analytic methods. Of particular concern are ways of reconstructing an unknown function from some of its projections. Radon transforms were developed at the beginning of the twentieth century by researchers who were motivated by problems in differential geometry,mathematical physics, and partial differential equations. Later, medical applications of these transforms produced breakthroughs in imaging technology that resulted in the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for the development of computerized tomography. Today the subject boasts substantial cross-disciplinary interactions, both in pure and applied mathematics as well as medicine, engineering, biology, physics, geosciences, and industrial testing. Therefore, this volume should be ofinterest to a wide spectrum of researchers both in mathematics and in other fields.

Integral Methods in Science and Engineering

Integral Methods in Science and Engineering
Author: Barbara S Bertram
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2019-05-20
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0429525109

Based on proceedings of the International Conference on Integral Methods in Science and Engineering, this collection of papers addresses the solution of mathematical problems by integral methods in conjunction with approximation schemes from various physical domains. Topics and applications include: wavelet expansions, reaction-diffusion systems, variational methods , fracture theory, boundary value problems at resonance, micromechanics, fluid mechanics, combustion problems, nonlinear problems, elasticity theory, and plates and shells.

Photoacoustic Imaging and Spectroscopy

Photoacoustic Imaging and Spectroscopy
Author: Lihong V. Wang
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 1027
Release: 2017-12-19
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1351834983

Photoacoustics promises to revolutionize medical imaging and may well make as dramatic a contribution to modern medicine as the discovery of the x-ray itself once did. Combining electromagnetic and ultrasonic waves synergistically, photoacoustics can provide deep speckle-free imaging with high electromagnetic contrast at high ultrasonic resolution and without any health risk. While photoacoustic imaging is probably the fastest growing biomedical imaging technology, this book is the first comprehensive volume in this emerging field covering both the physics and the remarkable noninvasive applications that are changing diagnostic medicine. Bringing together the leading pioneers in this field to write about their own work, Photoacoustic Imaging and Spectroscopy is the first to provide a full account of the latest research and developing applications in the area of biomedical photoacoustics. Photoacoustics can provide functional sensing of physiological parameters such as the oxygen saturation of hemoglobin. It can also provide high-contrast functional imaging of angiogenesis and hypermetabolism in tumors in vivo. Discussing these remarkable noninvasive applications and so much more, this reference is essential reading for all researchers in medical imaging and those clinicians working at the cutting-edge of modern biotechnology to develop diagnostic techniques that can save many lives and just as importantly do no harm.

Offbeat Integral Geometry on Symmetric Spaces

Offbeat Integral Geometry on Symmetric Spaces
Author: Valery V. Volchkov
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 596
Release: 2013-01-30
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3034805721

The book demonstrates the development of integral geometry on domains of homogeneous spaces since 1990. It covers a wide range of topics, including analysis on multidimensional Euclidean domains and Riemannian symmetric spaces of arbitrary ranks as well as recent work on phase space and the Heisenberg group. The book includes many significant recent results, some of them hitherto unpublished, among which can be pointed out uniqueness theorems for various classes of functions, far-reaching generalizations of the two-radii problem, the modern versions of the Pompeiu problem, and explicit reconstruction formulae in problems of integral geometry. These results are intriguing and useful in various fields of contemporary mathematics. The proofs given are “minimal” in the sense that they involve only those concepts and facts which are indispensable for the essence of the subject. Each chapter provides a historical perspective on the results presented and includes many interesting open problems. Readers will find this book relevant to harmonic analysis on homogeneous spaces, invariant spaces theory, integral transforms on symmetric spaces and the Heisenberg group, integral equations, special functions, and transmutation operators theory.

Voronezh Winter Mathematical Schools

Voronezh Winter Mathematical Schools
Author: Peter Kuchment
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 308
Release: 1998
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780821809761

The Voronezh Winter Mathematical School was an annual event in the scientific life of the former Soviet Union for 25 years. Articles collected here are written by prominent mathematicians and former lecturers and participants of the school, covering a range of subjects in analysis and geometry. Specific topics include global analysis, harmonic analysis, function theory, dynamical systems, operator theory, mathematical physics, spectral theory, homogenization, algebraic geometry, differential geometry, and geometric analysis. For researchers and graduate students in analysis, geometry, and mathematical physics. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Radon Transform, Inverse Problems, and Tomography

The Radon Transform, Inverse Problems, and Tomography
Author: Gestur Ólafsson
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2006
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0821839306

Since their emergence in 1917, tomography and inverse problems remain active and important fields that combine pure and applied mathematics and provide strong interplay between diverse mathematical problems and applications. The applied side is best known for medical and scientific use, in particular, medical imaging, radiotherapy, and industrial non-destructive testing. Doctors use tomography to see the internal structure of the body or to find functional information, such asmetabolic processes, noninvasively. Scientists discover defects in objects, the topography of the ocean floor, and geological information using X-rays, geophysical measurements, sonar, or other data. This volume, based on the lectures in the Short Course The Radon Transform and Applications to InverseProblems at the American Mathematical Society meeting in Atlanta, GA, January 3-4, 2005, brings together articles on mathematical aspects of tomography and related inverse problems. The articles cover introductory material, theoretical problems, and practical issues in 3-D tomography, impedance imaging, local tomography, wavelet methods, regularization and approximate inverse, sampling, and emission tomography. All contributions are written for a general audience, and the authors have includedreferences for further reading.

Proceedings of the International Conference Integral Geometry and Convexity

Proceedings of the International Conference Integral Geometry and Convexity
Author: Eric Grinberg
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2006
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9812565132

Integral geometry, known as geometric probability in the past, originated from Buffon's needle experiment. Remarkable advances have been made in several areas that involve the theory of convex bodies. This volume brings together contributions by leading international researchers in integral geometry, convex geometry, complex geometry, probability, statistics, and other convexity related branches. The articles cover both recent results and exciting directions for future research.