Fast Regularization Design for Tomographic Image Reconstruction for Uniform and Isotropic Spatial Resolution

To my grandparents ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS First and foremost, I want to and must thank my advisor, Jeff Fessler. Jeff really is the best advisor a grad student could ask for. He is supportive, accommodating, and dedicated, even though he has so many other students, responsibilities, and a family. I think it is safe to say that without Jeff, not only would this dissertation not exist, but I might have been stuck in Ann Arbor for 1, 2, 5 or 10 years longer. Did I mention he is also a wild jazz musician? I would also like to extend great thanks to my committee, Professor Neal H. Clinthorne, Professor Charles R. Meyer, and Professor Sandeep Pradhan Sandanandarao for their ex-pertise and valuable feedback on this work. I would also like to thank all of my colleagues in, and out of Jeff’s group. It has been a pleasure working with you all. I would also like to thank Professor Ron Fearing, Professor Jan Rabaey, Professor Kannan Ramchandran who have been a great help in my academic development