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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

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ISSN 1088-9485 (online) ISSN 0273-0979 (print)

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Book Review

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Book Information:

Author: Charles L. Epstein
Title: Mathematics of medical imaging
Additional book information: Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2003, 739 pp., ISBN 0-13-067548-2, $92.00$

Editor: Gunther Uhlmann
Title: Inside out: Inverse problems and applications
Additional book information: edited by Gunther Uhlmann, MSRI Publications, vol. 47, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 2004, xii + 400 pp., ISBN 0-521-82469-9, £50.00

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: F. Natterer
    Affiliation: Institut für Numerische und Instrumentelle Mathematik
    Email: nattere@math.uni-muenster.de
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 42 (2005), 89-91
    Published electronically: September 24, 2004
    Review copyright: © Copyright 2004 American Mathematical Society
    The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication.