Saving Lives with Mathematics: Removing landmines and tumours

摘要

Researchers from the Engineering Tomography Lab (ETL) at the University of Bath are developing cutting edge mathematical techniques to improve the removal of both landmines and cancerous tumours. These two seemingly unrelated problems have a common challenge - they both require extremely accurate imaging techniques to enable detection. The researchers are working on two separate projects to improve the imaging of both landmines and tumours, with the prospect that their research will lead to many lives being saved.