A Local Fourier Slice Theorem
This work provides a theoretical and computational improvement for projection operations in tomography, enabling faster and more memory-efficient reconstruction.
The authors introduce a local Fourier slice equation that enables local and sparse projection of a signal, reducing computation times and memory requirements in tomographic reconstruction.
We present a local Fourier slice equation that enables local and sparse projection of a signal. Our result exploits that a slice in frequency space is an iso-parameter set in spherical coordinates. Therefore, the projection of suitable wavelets defined separably in these coordinates can be computed analytically, yielding a sequence of wavelets closed under projection. Our local Fourier slice equation then realizes projection as reconstruction with "sliced" wavelets with computational costs that scale linearly in the complexity of the projected signal. We numerically evaluate the performance of our local Fourier slice equation for synthetic test data and tomographic reconstruction, demonstrating that locality and sparsity can significantly reduce computation times and memory requirements.