Related papers: Inversion of the Weighted Spherical Mean
In the articles [1] and [2] of D. Finch, M. Haltmeier, S. Patch and D. Rakesh inversion formulas were found in any dimension $n\geq2$ for recovering a smooth function with compact support in the unit ball from spherical means centered on…
Spherical means are well-known useful tool in the theory of partial differential equations with applications to solving hyperbolic and ultrahyperbolic equations and problems of integral geometry, tomography and Radon transforms. We…
The problem of reconstruction a function from spherical means is at the heart of several modern imaging modalities and other applications. In this paper we derive universal back-projection type reconstruction formulas for recovering a…
We derive explicit formulas for the reconstruction of a function from its integrals over a family of spheres, or for the inversion of the spherical mean Radon transform. Such formulas are important for problems of thermo- and photo-…
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…
We establish inversion formulas of the so called filtered back-projection type to recover a function supported in the ball in even dimensions from its spherical means over spheres centered on the boundary of the ball. We also find several…
In this paper we deal with the problem of recovering functions from their spherical mean transform $\mathcal{R}$, which integrates functions on circles in the plane, in case where the centers of the circles of integration are located on a…
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 object of this study is an integral operator $\mathcal{S}$ which averages functions in the Euclidean upper half-space $\mathbb{R}_{+}^{n}$ over the half-spheres centered on the topological boundary $\partial \mathbb{R}_{+}^{n}$. By…
The work develops further the theory of the following inversion problem, which plays the central role in the rapidly developing area of thermoacoustic tomography and has intimate connections with PDEs and integral geometry: {\it Reconstruct…
Given a real valued function on R^n we study the problem of recovering the function from its spherical means over spheres centered on a hyperplane. An old paper of Bukhgeim and Kardakov derived an inversion formula for the odd n case with…
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…
It is known that the Funk transform (the Funk-Radon transform) is invertible in the class of even (symmetric) continuous functions defined on the unit 2-sphere S^2. In this article, for the reconstruction of f from C(S^2) (can be non-even),…
We employ the framework of operational calculus to derive the operators associated with the spherical mean and a class of related averaging means of a function in $n$-dimensional space. Beginning with the classical definition of the…
This work introduces a new inversion formula for analytical functions. It is simple, generally applicable and straightforward to use both in hand calculations and for symbolic machine processing. It is easier to apply than the traditional…
Any even function defined on 2-sphere is reconstructed from its integrals over big circles by means of the classical Funk formula. For the non-geodesic Funk transform on the sphere of arbitrary dimension, there is the explicit inversion…
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…
Recovering a function from its spherical Radon transform with centers of spheres of integration restricted to a hypersurface is at the heart of several modern imaging technologies, including SAR, ultrasound imaging, and photo- and…
In this article we study the spherical mean Radon transform in $\mathbf R^3$ with detectors centered on a plane. We use the consistency method suggested by the author of this article for the inversion of the transform in 3D. A new iterative…
In the article [11] of L. Kunyansky a symmetric integral identity for Bessel functions of the first and second kind was proved in order to obtain an explicit inversion formula for the spherical mean transform where our data is given on the…