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Inverting the spherical Radon transform for physically meaningful functions

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

In this paper we refer to the reconstruction formulas given in L.-E. Andersson's On the determination of a function from spherical averages, which are often used in applications such as SAR and SONAR. We demonstrate that the first one of these formulas does not converge given physically reasonable assumptions. An alternative is proposed and it is shown that the second reconstruction formula is well-defined but might be difficult to compute numerically.

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@article{arxiv.math/0307348,
  title  = {Inverting the spherical Radon transform for physically meaningful functions},
  author = {Jens Klein},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0307348},
  year   = {2007}
}

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15 pages, also available at http://wwwmath.uni-muenster.de/num/Preprints/