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We consider an inverse problem arising in thermo-/photo- acoustic tomography that amounts to reconstructing a function $f$ from its circular or spherical means with the centers lying on a given measurement surface. (Equivalently, these…
The Funk--Minkowski transform ${\mathcal F}$ associates a function $f$ on the sphere ${\mathbb S}^2$ with its mean values (integrals) along all great circles of the sphere. Thepresented analytical inversion formula reconstruct the unknown…
Many modern imaging and remote sensing applications require reconstructing a function from spherical averages (mean values). Examples include photoacoustic tomography, ultrasound imaging or SONAR. Several formulas of the back-projection…
The sonar transform in geometric tomography maps functions on the Euclidean half-space to integrals of those functions over hemispheres centered on the boundary hyperplane. We obtain sharp $L^p$-$L^q$ estimates for this transform and new…
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…
Let $\mR$ be the restriction of the spherical Radon transform to the set of spheres centered on a hypersurface $\mS$. We study the inversion of $\mR$ by a closed-form formula. We approach the problem by studying an oscillatory integral,…
The aim of this paper is to present inversion methods for the classical Radon transform which is defined on a family of $k$ dimensional planes in $\Bbb R^{n}$ where $1\leq k\leq n - 2$. For these values of $k$ the dimension of the set…
We obtain explicit inversion formulas for the Radon-like transform that assigns to a function on the unit sphere the integrals of that function over hemispheres lying in lower dimensional central cross-sections. The results are applied to…
We present explicit filtration/backprojection-type formulae for the inversion of the spherical (circular) mean transform with the centers lying on the boundary of some polyhedra (or polygons, in 2D). The formulae are derived using the…
The transform considered in the paper averages a function supported in a ball in $\RR^n$ over all spheres centered at the boundary of the ball. This Radon type transform arises in several contemporary applications, e.g. in thermoacoustic…
We present an analysis of a novel spherical Radon transform, $R$, which defines the integrals of a function, $f$, in $\mathbb{R}^n$ over spheres with arbitrary center ($\mathbf{y}$) and radii, $r(\mathbf{y})$, which vary smoothly with…
We consider integrals of spherical harmonics with Fourier exponents on the sphere $S^n ,\, n \geq 1$. Such transforms arise in the framework of the theory of weighted Radon transforms and vector diffraction in electromagnetic fields theory.…
We study integral transforms mapping a function on the Euclidean space to the family of its integration on some hypersurfaces, that is, a function of hypersurfaces. The hypersurfaces are given by the graphs of functions with fixed axes of…
Necessary and sufficient conditions are obtained for injectivity of the shifted Funk-Radon transform associated with $k$-dimensional totally geodesic submanifolds of the unit sphere $S^n$ in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$. This result generalizes the…
The spherical Radon transform on the unit sphere can be regarded as a member of the analytic family of suitably normalized generalized cosine transforms. We derive new formulas for these transforms and apply them to study classes of…
Several novel imaging applications have lead recently to a variety of Radon type transforms, where integration is done over a family of conical surfaces. We call them \emph{cone transforms} (in 2D they are also called \emph{V-line} or…
This paper is devoted to a Radon-type transform arising in a version of Photoacoustic Tomography that uses integrating circular detectors. We show that the transform can be decomposed into the spherical Radon transform and the…
We introduce and study a new Radon-like transform that averages projected differential p-forms in R^n over affine (n-k)-planes. We then prove an explicit inversion formula for our transform on the space of rapidly-decaying smooth p-forms.…
We obtain new descriptions of the null spaces of several projectively equivalent transforms in integral geometry. The paper deals with the hyperplane Radon transform, the totally geodesic transforms on the sphere and the hyperbolic space,…
The Radon transform and its dual are central objects in geometric analysis on Riemannian symmetric spaces of the noncompact type. In this article we study algebraic versions of those transforms on inductive limits of symmetric spaces. In…