Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics, Volume 118

The four chapters that make up this volume are all in the general area of imaging and image processing. We begin with an account of magnetic resonance imaging, which older readers will think of as unclear magnetic resonance imaging, and of the related technique of magnetization transfer imaging. In this. J. C. McGowan first describes in detail the physics of the magnetic resonance imaging process and then goes on to discuss the recently developed technique of magnetization transfer imaging.

Next comes a very welcome account of the highly original work of D. Paganin and K. A. Nugent on phase determination by noninterferometric methods.

Scanning probe microscopy is still a young subject and is in rapid growth, with continuing new developments in instrumentation and experimental techniques. The chapter by E. Oesterschulze fiist discusses developments in atomic force microscopy and then turns to near-held optics.

The final chapter, by I. R. Terol-Villalobos, is a new addition to the numerous articles published here on aspects of mathematical morphology.