Etymology

Radon transform

Today it means: An integral transform which takes a function defined on the plane to a function defined on the (two-dimensional) space of lines in the plane, whose value at a particular line is equal to the line integral of the function over that line. Full definition →

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Introduced in 1917 by Johann Radon.

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