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Discrete Image Reconstruction

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We have seen that, when complete continuous X-ray data are available, then an attenuation-coefficient function f(x, y) can be reconstructed exactly using the filtered back-projection formula, Theorem 6.2.

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Feeman, T.G. (2015). Discrete Image Reconstruction. In: The Mathematics of Medical Imaging. Springer Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22665-1_8

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