Range conditions for a spherical mean transform

DOI10.3934/IPI.2009.3.373MaRDI QIDQ2268305zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors David Finch, Mark L. Agranovsky, Peter Kuchment

Publication date 10 March 2010

Published in Inverse Problems and Imaging (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0902.4272

zbMATH Keywords

Radon transformrangespherical meantomography

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Partial differential equations of mathematical physics and other areas of application (35Q99) Radon transform (44A12) Biomedical imaging and signal processing (92C55)

Abstract: The paper is devoted to the range description of the Radon type transform that averages a function over all spheres centered on a given sphere. Such transforms arise naturally in thermoacoustic tomography, a novel method of medical imaging. Range descriptions have recently been obtained for such transforms, and consisted of smoothness and support conditions, moment conditions, and some additional orthogonality conditions of spectral nature. It has been noticed that in odd dimensions, surprisingly, the moment conditions are superfluous and can be eliminated. It is shown in this text that in fact the same happens in any dimension.

Review text

Let \(S:= \{x\in\mathbb{R}^n:|x|= 1\}\). The authors study the restricted spherical mean operator \[ R_S f(x,t)= \int_{|u|=1} f(x+ tu)\,du, \] where \((x,t)\in S\times\mathbb{R}^+\), and the function is defined and \(C^\infty_0\) on the unit ball in \(\mathbb{R}^n\). As the authors explain, this Radon type transform \(f\to R_Sf\) is important in the thermo-acoustic tomography. The paper deals with the range description of this transform, i.e. with finding conditions for a function \(g(x,t)\) assuring that \(g= R_Sf\) for some \(f\). The main focus is on certain moment conditions, and the authors show that these moment conditions can be dropped from the range description in all dimensions.

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