PSEUDOLOCAL TOMOGRAPHY

Proposed is a pseudolocal tomography concept. A function f(d) is defin ed which, on one hand, has locality properties and, on the other hand, preserves locations and sizes of discontinuities of the original dens ity function and of its derivatives. In particular, one can recover lo cations and values of jumps of the original function f from these of f (d). The resulting images of jumps are sharper than those in standard global tomography. A formula for f(d) is obtained from the Radon trans form inversion formula by keeping only the interval of length 2d cente red at the singularity of the Cauchy kernel. At a point x, f(d)(x) is computed using (f) over cap(theta,p) for (theta,p) satisfying \theta . x - p\ less than or equal to d, where (f) over cap is the Radon trans form of f. Theoretical and numerical aspects of pseudolocal tomography are discussed. Results of model experiments showed effectiveness of t he proposed methods.