Title
The Radon Transform over Cones with Vertices on the Sphere and Orthogonal Axes.
Abstract
Recovering a function from its integrals over circular cones recently gained significance because of its relevance to novel medical imaging technologies such as emission tomography using Compton cameras. In this paper, we investigate the case where the vertices of the cones of integration are restricted to a sphere in n-dimensional space and where the symmetry axes are orthogonal to the sphere. We show invertibility of the considered transform and develop an inversion method based on series expansion and reduction to a system of one-dimensional integral equations of generalized Abel type. Since the arising kernels do not satisfy standard assumptions, we also develop a uniqueness result for generalized Abel integral equations where the kernel has zeros on the diagonal. Finally, we demonstrate how to efficiently implement our inversion method and present numerical results.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1137/16M1079476
SIAM JOURNAL ON APPLIED MATHEMATICS
Keywords
Field
DocType
computed tomography,Radon transform,SPECT,Compton cameras,conical Radon transform,uniqueness of reconstruction,spherical harmonics decomposition,series expansion,generalized Abel integral equations,first kind Volterra integral equations with zeros in diagonal
Diagonal,Uniqueness,Mathematical optimization,Vertex (geometry),Mathematical analysis,Integral equation,Series expansion,Abel transform,Orthogonal coordinates,Radon transform,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
77
4
0036-1399
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.42
5
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Daniela Schiefeneder120.42
Markus Haltmeier27414.16