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Digital radiography (DR) is becoming popular for the point of care imaging in the recent past. To reduce the radiation exposure, controlled radiation based on as low as reasonably achievable (ALARA) principle is employed and this results in…

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We define the space of functions of bounded variation ($BV$) on the graph. Using the notion of divergence of flows on graphs, we show that the unit ball of the dual space to $BV$ in the graph setting can be described as the image of the…

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