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Tomography Helps Study Medieval Coins

NUMISMATIC STUDIES EMPLOY many techniques used in related fields of science. Tomography involves using a penetrating wave to image a section of something. It has been useful in archeology, astrophysics, atmospheric science, biology, geophysics, material science, oceanography, plasma physics, quantum information, radiology, and now numismatics.

Tomography is among the techniques being employed by the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (Dubna, Russia), Kazan Federal University,

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