Having worked through Geometric Tomography by Gardner, one of the big names in the field, I am pretty confident in asserting that the folks in the field have little to no interest in tomography or other applications. It's merely a grant winning ruse. The same field rebrands as "high dimensional probability/stats" by casting the uniform measure on convex bodies in the language of log-concave densities, but you talk to the folks themselves and they smirk about the extent to which they care about whether their work has any relation to the applications they claim.

There are some notable exceptions -- Donoho, Vershynin -- but most of them are doing good old fashioned Brunn-Minkowski theory, which is fundamental but a hard sell in its most truthful form.