Applications and Science of Tomography

Applications and Science of Tomography

Tomography refers to the reconstruction of objects from projections. Tomography has had a revolutionary impact on diagnostic medicine, providing a non-invasive approach in which doctors can examine internal organs and metabolic activity. Modern computing technologies are essential tools to interpret the vast amounts of data and calculations required in tomography, and computerized tomograpy (CT) encompasses many disciplines including, electrical engineering, mathematics, computer science, physics, mechanics and biomedical sciences. Tomography, however, is not only limited to the medical field. Its principles have been applied to numerous and diverse arenas such as industrial evaluation, airport screening, microtomography, geophysics, oceonography, astronomy, and optical tomography and diffraction tomography.
The concept of tomography was first published in 1826 by a Norwegian physicist named Able. In 1917, J. Radon, an Austrian ma...