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May  2016, 15(3): 1029-1039. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2016.15.1029

Inversion of the spherical Radon transform on spheres through the origin using the regular Radon transform

Sunghwan Moon 1,

1. 

Department of Mathematical Sciences, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan 689-798, South Korea

Received  July 2014 Revised  April 2015 Published  February 2016

A spherical Radon transform whose integral domain is a sphere has many applications in partial differential equations as well as tomography. This paper is devoted to the spherical Radon transform which assigns to a given function its integrals over the set of spheres passing through the origin. We present a relation between this spherical Radon transform and the regular Radon transform, and we provide a new inversion formula for the spherical Radon transform using this relation. Numerical simulations were performed to demonstrate the suggested algorithm in dimension 2.
Keywords: tomography, circular-arc, Radon, spherical, transform., Compton.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 44A12, 65R10; Secondary: 92C5.
Citation: Sunghwan Moon. Inversion of the spherical Radon transform on spheres through the origin using the regular Radon transform. Communications on Pure & Applied Analysis, 2016, 15 (3) : 1029-1039. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2016.15.1029
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References:
[1]

L. Andersson, On the determination of a function from spherical averages,, \emph{SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis}, 19 (1988), 214.  doi: 10.1137/0519016.  Google Scholar

[2]

A. M. Cormack, Representation of a function by its line integrals, with some radiological applications,, \emph{Journal of Applied Physics}, 34 (1963), 2722.   Google Scholar

[3]

A. M. Cormack, Representation of a function by its line integrals, with some radiological applications. II,, \emph{Journal of Applied Physics}, 35 (1964), 2908.   Google Scholar

[4]

A. M. Cormack and E. T. Quinto, A Radon transform on spheres through the origin in $\mathbbR^n$ and applications to the Darboux equation,, \emph{Transactions of the American Mathematical Society}, 260 (1980), 575.  doi: 10.2307/1998023.  Google Scholar

[5]

J. Fawcett, Inversion of $n$-dimensional spherical averages,, \emph{SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics}, 45 (1985), 336.  doi: 10.1137/0145018.  Google Scholar

[6]

D. Finch, M. Haltmeier and Rakesh, Inversion of spherical means and the wave equation in even dimensions,, \emph{SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics}, 68 (2007), 392.  doi: 10.1137/070682137.  Google Scholar

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D. Finch, S. Patch and Rakesh, Determining a function from its mean values over a family of spheres,, \emph{SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis}, 35 (2004), 1213.  doi: 10.1137/S0036141002417814.  Google Scholar

[8]

D. Finch and Rakesh, Recovering a function from its spherical mean values in two and three dimensions,, In \emph{Photoacoustic Imaging and Spectroscopy} (L. Wang ed.), (2009).   Google Scholar

[9]

S. Gindikin, J. Reeds and L. Shepp, Spherical tomography and spherical integral geometry,, In \emph{Tomography, (1993), 7.   Google Scholar

[10]

M. Haltmeier, Exact reconstruction formula for the spherical mean Radon transform on ellipsoids,, \emph{Inverse Problems}, 30 (2014).  doi: 10.1088/0266-5611/30/10/105006.  Google Scholar

[11]

S. Helgason, A duality in integral geometry: some generalizations of the Radon transform,, \emph{Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society}, 70 (1964), 435.   Google Scholar

[12]

H. Hellsten and L. E. Andersson, An inverse method for the processing of synthetic aperture radar data,, \emph{Inverse Problems}, 3 (1987).   Google Scholar

[13]

F. John, Plane Waves and Spherical Means Applied to Partial Differential Equations,, Dover Books on Mathematics Series. Dover Publications, (2004).   Google Scholar

[14]

L. A. Kunyansky, Explicit inversion formulae for the spherical mean Radon transform,, \emph{Inverse Problems}, 23 (2007).  doi: 10.1088/0266-5611/23/1/021.  Google Scholar

[15]

L. A. Kunyansky, A series solution and a fast algorithm for the inversion of the spherical mean Radon transform,, \emph{Inverse Problems}, 23 (2007).  doi: 10.1088/0266-5611/23/6/S02.  Google Scholar

[16]

L. A. Kunyansky, Fast reconstruction algorithms for the thermoacoustic tomography in certain domains with cylindrical or spherical symmetries,, \emph{Inverse Problems and Imaging}, 6 (2012), 111.  doi: 10.3934/ipi.2012.6.111.  Google Scholar

[17]

D. Ludwig, The Radon transform on Euclidean space,, \emph{Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics}, 19 (1966), 49.   Google Scholar

[18]

E. K. Narayanan and Rakesh, Spherical means with centers on a hyperplane in even dimensions,, \emph{Inverse Problems}, 26 (2010).  doi: 10.1088/0266-5611/26/3/035014.  Google Scholar

[19]

F. Natterer, The Mathematics of Computerized Tomography,, Classics in Applied Mathematics. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, (2001).  doi: 10.1137/1.9780898719284.  Google Scholar

[20]

F. Natterer and F. Wübbeling, Mathematical methods in image reconstruction,, SIAM Monographs on mathematical modeling and computation. SIAM, (2001).  doi: 10.1137/1.9780898718324.  Google Scholar

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M. K. Nguyen and T. T. Truong, Inversion of a new circular-arc Radon transform for Compton scattering tomography,, \emph{Inverse Problems}, 26 (2010).  doi: 10.1088/0266-5611/26/6/065005.  Google Scholar

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M. K. Nguyen, G Rigaud and T. T. Truong, A new circular-arc Radon transform and the numerical method for its inversion,, In \emph{Aip Conference Proceedings}, (1281).   Google Scholar

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S. J. Norton, Reconstruction of a reflectivity field from line integrals over circular paths,, \emph{The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America}, 67 (1980), 853.  doi: 10.1121/1.384168.  Google Scholar

[25]

E. T. Quinto, Null spaces and ranges for the classical and spherical Radon transforms,, \emph{Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications}, 90 (1982), 408.  doi: 10.1016/0022-247X(82)90069-5.  Google Scholar

[26]

E. T. Quinto, Singular value decompositions and inversion methods for the exterior radon transform and a spherical transform,, \emph{Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications}, 95 (1983), 437.  doi: 10.1016/0022-247X(83)90118-X.  Google Scholar

[27]

E. Quinto, Singularities of the X-ray transform and limited data tomography in $\mathbbR^2$ and $\mathbbR^3$,, \emph{SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis}, 24 (1993), 1215.  doi: 10.1137/0524069.  Google Scholar

[28]

N. T. Redding and G. N. Newsam, Inverting the circular Radon transform,, \emph{DTSO Research Report DTSO-Ru-0211}, (2001).   Google Scholar

[29]

H. Rhee, A representation of the solutions of the Darboux equation in odd-dimensional spaces,, \emph{Transactions of the American Mathematical Society}, 150 (1970), 491.   Google Scholar

[30]

K. T. Smith, D. C. Solmon and S. L. Wagner, Practical and mathematical aspects of the problem of reconstructing a function from radiographs,, \emph{Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society}, 82 (1977), 1227.   Google Scholar

[31]

A. E. Yagle, Inversion of spherical means using geometric inversion and Radon transforms,, \emph{Inverse Problems}, 8 (1992).   Google Scholar

[32]

C. E. Yarman and B. Yazici, Inversion of the circular averages transform using the Funk transform,, \emph{Inverse Problems}, 27 (2011).  doi: 10.1088/0266-5611/27/6/065001.  Google Scholar

[33]

L. Zalcman, Offbeat integral geometry,, \emph{The American Mathematical Monthly}, 87 (1980), 161.  doi: 10.2307/2321600.  Google Scholar

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