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Integral Geometry and Tomography Integral Geometry and Tomography Proceedings of a Joint Summer Research Conference held June 24-30, 1989 .....•. .....·' ' .""·... Q ' ..• •' ..~ ... : ~ "· ":. \. ....... , ~ - . .. ... '......... - http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/113 Titles in This Series Volume 1 Markov random fields and their 19 Proceedings of the Northwestern applications, Ross Kindermann and homotopy theory conference, Haynes J. Laurie Snell R. Miller and Stewart B. Priddy, Editors 2 Proceedings of the conference on 20 Low dimensional topology, Samuel J. integration, topology, and geometry in Lomonaco, Jr., Editor linear spaces, William H. Graves, Editor 21 Topological methods in nonlinear 3 The closed graph and P-closed functional analysis, S. P. Singh, graph properties in general topology, S. Thomeier, and B. Watson, Editors T. R. Hamlett and L. L. 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