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Tomography is traditionally associated with medical ‘CT’ scanners that have been in use for over 30 years now. This mathematical concept is now applied widely by scientists and engineers in a variety of measurements involving solids, fluid, gases and plasmas. Instrumentation based on X-rays, gammarays, lasers and acoustics have been used successfully in these applications. Inherent error in such measurements can be also be estimated thus making tomographic imaging a very powerful non-invasive technique for field measurements.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, 208 016, India

    Prabhat Munshi

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Prabhat Munshi is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at IIT Kanpur. His major areas of his interest are computerized tomography and nuclear reactor safety analysis.

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Munshi, P. Tomography. Reson 12, 54–62 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12045-007-0114-2

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