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Mathematical problems associated with the theoretical foundations of emission tomography involve the inversion of the celebrated Radon transform of a function, defined as the set of all its line integrals, as well as the inversion of a certain generalization of the Radon transform of a function, the so-called attenuated Radon transform, defined as the set of all its attenuated line integrals. The non-attenuated and attenuated versions of the Radon transform provide the mathematical basis of emission tomography, particularly of two of the most important available medical imaging techniques, namely positron emission tomography (PET), and single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT). Although Radon himself derived in 1917 the inversion of the transform bearing his name, seventy four years later Novikov and Fokas rederived this well-known formula by considering two classical problems in complex analysis known as the \(\bar{d}\)-problem and the scalar Riemann-Hilbert problem. The inversion may be obtained in a simpler manner by the use of the Fourier transform, however the derivation of Novikov and Fokas allowed Novikov to invert the attenuated Radon transform in 2002. Four years later Fokas, Iserles and Marinakis established a more straightforward derivation of this inversion. In this work, we present the seminal work of Fokas in the area of mathematical image reconstruction, based on the mathematical machinery of modern methods in complex analysis.
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This research was partially supported by the European Union and Greek national funds through the Operational Program Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, under the call RESEARCH-CREATE-INNOVATE (project code: TAEDK-06189). K. Kalimeris acknowledges support by the research programme 200/984 of the Research Committee of the Academy of Athens.
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Protonotarios, N.E., Kalimeris, K., Kastis, G.A. (2023). Fokas on Medical Imaging: Analytic Reconstructions for Emission Tomography. In: Bountis, T., Vallianatos, F., Provata, A., Kugiumtzis, D., Kominis, Y. (eds) Chaos, Fractals and Complexity. COSA-Net 2022. Springer Proceedings in Complexity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37404-3_11
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