Function Reconstruction from Reflection Symmetric Radon Data

In many areas of two-dimensional imaging science, data acquisition arises as an integral process. The inverse process—or image reconstruction—means the solving of a Radon problem mathematically. It may happen that there exists classes of integral data which are mirror symmetric with respect to a lin...

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Main Author: Trong Tuong Truong
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-06-01
Series:Symmetry
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/12/6/956
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Summary:In many areas of two-dimensional imaging science, data acquisition arises as an integral process. The inverse process—or image reconstruction—means the solving of a Radon problem mathematically. It may happen that there exists classes of integral data which are mirror symmetric with respect to a line. Common sense suggests that the occurrence of a symmetry usually provides significant help in the search of the problem solution. Here, we showed an example of the contrary to this popular belief. In fact, to solve such a Radon problem with inherent reflection symmetry, there is a need to split it into two new Radon problems on half-spaces, which do not have solutions at hand. In this paper, a full solution is obtained via geometric inversion mapping of the two original half-spaces Radon problems to the disk interior/exterior Radon problem arising in recent modalities of Compton scattering tomography, which fortunately has explicit worked out inverse formulas.
ISSN:2073-8994