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We derive a direct inversion formula for the exponential Radon transform. Our formula requires only the values of the transform over an 180° range of angles. It is an explicit formula, except that it involves a holomorphic function for which an explicit expression has not been found. In practice, this function can be approximated by an easily computed polynomial of rather low degree.

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We investigate whether a Stein manifold$M$which allows proper holomorphic embedding into ℂ^{$n$}can be embedded in such a way that the image contains a given discrete set of points and in addition follow arbitrarily close to prescribed tangent directions in a neighbourhood of the discrete set. The infinitesimal version was proven by Forstnerič to be always possible. We give a general positive answer if the dimension of$M$is smaller than$n$/2 and construct counterexamples for all other dimensional relations. The obstruction we use in these examples is a certain hyperbolicity condition.