# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

December  2020, 14(6): 967-983. doi: 10.3934/ipi.2020044

## Optimal recovery of a radiating source with multiple frequencies along one line

 1 Department of Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering 2 NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway 3 Technical University of Denmark, Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Lyngby, Denmark 4 University of Jyväskylä, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, P.O. Box 35 (MaD), FI-40014 University of Jyväskylä, Finland 5 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, P.O 68 (Pietari Kalmin katu 5), 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland 6 Department of Mathematical Sciences, P.O. Box 3000, FI-90014 University of Oulu, Finland

* Corresponding author: Tommi Brander

Received  May 2019 Revised  May 2020 Published  August 2020

We study an inverse problem where an unknown radiating source is observed with collimated detectors along a single line and the medium has a known attenuation. The research is motivated by applications in SPECT and beam hardening. If measurements are carried out with frequencies ranging in an open set, we show that the source density is uniquely determined by these measurements up to averaging over levelsets of the integrated attenuation. This leads to a generalized Laplace transform. We also discuss some numerical approaches and demonstrate the results with several examples.

Citation: Tommi Brander, Joonas Ilmavirta, Petteri Piiroinen, Teemu Tyni. Optimal recovery of a radiating source with multiple frequencies along one line. Inverse Problems & Imaging, 2020, 14 (6) : 967-983. doi: 10.3934/ipi.2020044
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Sharafutdinov, Momentum ray transforms, Inverse Problems and Imaging, 13 (2019), 679–701, URL http://aimsciences.org//article/id/d88823a5-827c-4c4b-909a-c27daa0b74ec. doi: 10.3934/ipi.2019031.  Google Scholar [17] L. A. Lehmann and R. E. Alvarez, Energy-selective radiography a review, in Digital Radiography: Selected Topics (eds. J. G. Kereiakes, S. R. Thomas and C. G. Orton), Springer US, Boston, MA, (1986), 145–188. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4684-5068-2_7.  Google Scholar [18] R. M. Lewitt and S. Matej, Overview of methods for image reconstruction from projections in emission computed tomography, Proceedings of the IEEE, 91 (2003), 1588-1611.  doi: 10.1109/JPROC.2003.817882.  Google Scholar [19] C. H. McCollough, S. Leng, L. Yu and J. G. Fletcher, Dual- and multi-energy CT: Principles, technical approaches, and clinical applications, Radiology, 276 (2015), 637-653.  doi: 10.1148/radiol.2015142631.  Google Scholar [20] P. 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Unknown $\rho_0$ (dashed red line) and the numerical solution $\rho$ (solid blue line) with 0.5% noise level. Example 1 (above) and example 2 (below) with Tikhonov-solution (left), TV-solution (middle) and CGLS-solution (right)
Unknown $\rho_0$ (dashed red line), $\rho_0$ averaged over regions where $p$ is constant (black dot-dash line) and the numerical solution $\rho$ (solid blue line) with 0.5% noise level. Tikhonov-solution (left), TV-solution (middle) and CGLS-solution (right)
Unknown $\rho_0$ (dashed red line) and the Tikhonov-solution $\rho$ (solid blue line) with 0.5% noise level and smaller measurement intervals
Averaged relative errors and variances of one hundred solutions on smaller intervals with noise level 0.5%
 Intervals $(0,1)$ $(0.2,0.8)$ $(0.3,0.6)$ $(0.4,0.5)$ $\overline{\epsilon}_\mathrm{rel}$ 0.117 0.170 0.186 0.320 $\mathrm{var}$ $1.88\cdot 10^{-3}$ $1.27\cdot 10^{-2}$ $1.27\cdot 10^{-2}$ $6.65\cdot 10^{-3}$
 Intervals $(0,1)$ $(0.2,0.8)$ $(0.3,0.6)$ $(0.4,0.5)$ $\overline{\epsilon}_\mathrm{rel}$ 0.117 0.170 0.186 0.320 $\mathrm{var}$ $1.88\cdot 10^{-3}$ $1.27\cdot 10^{-2}$ $1.27\cdot 10^{-2}$ $6.65\cdot 10^{-3}$
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