By Charles L. Epstein
On the middle of each scientific imaging know-how is a worldly mathematical version of the size strategy and an set of rules to reconstruct a picture from the measured facts. This publication offers an organization origin within the mathematical instruments used to version the measurements and derive the reconstruction algorithms utilized in such a lot imaging modalities in present use. within the strategy, it additionally covers many vital analytic recommendations and methods utilized in Fourier research, imperative equations, sampling thought, and noise research.
this article makes use of X-ray computed tomography as a "pedagogical desktop" to demonstrate vital rules and contains vast discussions of heritage fabric making the extra complex mathematical themes obtainable to readers with a much less formal mathematical schooling. The mathematical suggestions are illuminated with over two hundred illustrations and various routines.
New to the second one version are a bankruptcy on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), a revised part at the courting among the continuum and discrete Fourier transforms, a brand new part on Grangreat s formulation, a much better description of the gridding process, and a brand new part on noise research in MRI.
viewers The publication is suitable for one- or two-semester classes on the complicated undergraduate or starting graduate point at the mathematical foundations of recent scientific imaging applied sciences. The textual content assumes an realizing of calculus, linear algebra, and uncomplicated mathematical research.
Contents Preface to the second one version; Preface; find out how to Use This e-book; Notational Conventions; bankruptcy 1: Measurements and Modeling; bankruptcy 2: Linear types and Linear Equations; bankruptcy three: A easy version for Tomography; bankruptcy four: creation to the Fourier remodel; bankruptcy five: Convolution; bankruptcy 6: The Radon remodel; bankruptcy 7: creation to Fourier sequence; bankruptcy eight: Sampling; bankruptcy nine: Filters; bankruptcy 10: imposing Shift Invariant Filters; bankruptcy eleven: Reconstruction in X-Ray Tomography; bankruptcy 12: Imaging Artifacts in X-Ray Tomography; bankruptcy thirteen: Algebraic Reconstruction innovations; bankruptcy 14: Magnetic Resonance Imaging; bankruptcy 15: likelihood and Random Variables; bankruptcy sixteen: purposes of likelihood; bankruptcy 17: Random procedures; Appendix A: historical past fabric; Appendix B: easy research; Index
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