The harmonic decomposition reconstruction for the exponential Radon transform. (Q4789614)

The two-dimensional (2D) Radon transform is the mathematical basis of computerized tomography. The 2D Radon transform and its exact inverse, as well as various practical approximations to the exact formulae, are well known. One of the possible generalizations of Radon transform is the exponential Radon transform, which was used, for example, in single photon emission tomography. Considerable effort has been devoted to study on the exponential Radon transform, and a number of satisfactory practical algorithms for reconstructing the activity distributions have been given. An important contribution to this problem has been made by \textit{O. Tretiak} and \textit{C. Metz} [SIAM J. Appl. Math. 39, 341--354 (1980; Zbl 0459.44003)]. They gave the inversion formula based on frequency-domain filtering of the projection data. \textit{G. T. Gullberg} and \textit{T. F. Budinger} [IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., BME-28, 142--157 (1981)] advanced the theory further by considering space-domain filtering of the projection data. The authors first establish notations and some basic results concerning the exponential Radon transform as a mapping of function spaces. Secondly, based on the harmonic decomposition technique, they obtain the representation of the exponential Radon transform in terms of the Fourier transform of its domain and range. Then, derive the harmonic decomposition reconstruction get similar results to the ones obtained by \textit{O. Tretiak} and \textit{C. Metz} [loc. cit.].