Quantity of tomographic blurring.
A spiral tomographic movement gives rise to a lower quantity of blurring than does a circular movement with the same tomographic angle since in the former the focus comes nearer to the central point. It has been demonstrated that the transfer function may be used to express the quantity of blurring for different tomographic movements. For the sake of convenience the blurring quantity for every type of spiral movement may be expressed in terms of the tomographic angle of a circular movement giving rise to the same transfer function.
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