A simple shearlet-based reconstruction for computer tomography

Abstract

We find a new and simple inversion formula of the Radon transform RT with the only use of the shearlet system and of well-known properties of RT. No intertwining relation of differential operators in Euclidean space and Radon domain is used. As a consequence, an additive noise is not incremented. Since the continuum theory of shearlets has a straight translation to the discrete theory, we find a fast, stable and computable algorithm that recovers a digital image from noisy samples of the Radon transform preserving edges. In the process, we find a more natural and easier-to-construct density-compensation weight functions for the ShearLab toolbox.

First author added. Includes numerical simulations and 5 figures