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Book review

Advances in Picture Reconstruction—Theory and Applications. Edited by Z. H. Cho "Computers in Biology and Medicine", Volume 6, number 4, October, 1976. Special issue, pp. 136, £8·25. (Oxford, Pergamon Press).

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In recent years there has been an explosion of interest in three dimensional image reconstruction from projections. The timely appearance of this special issue is a welcome introduction to this vast subject and is primarily intended for the mathematical physicist. The newcomer might well begin with this collection of papers which not only reviews in some detail the theoretical foundations but clearly directs the reader to the wealth of literature which has accompanied the translation of reconstruction techniques from the realms of electron microscopy and radioastronomy to that of diagnostic radiology. Papers by Mersereau on direct Fourier transform techniques, by Herman, Lakshminarayanan and Naparstek on convolution algorithms and the discussion of iterative reconstruction by Herman and Lent are central to this volume.