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John's equation is an ultrahyperbolic partial differential equation satisfied by the X-ray transform of a function. It is named after Fritz John. Given a function with compact support the ''X-ray transform'' is the integral over all lines in . We will parameterise the lines by pairs of points , on each line and define '''' as the ray transform where : Such functions '''' are characterized by John's equations : which is proved by Fritz John for dimension three and by Kurusa for higher dimensions. In three-dimensional x-ray computerized tomography John's equation can be solved to fill in missing data, for example where the data is obtained from a point source traversing a curve, typically a helix. More generally an ''ultrahyperbolic'' partial differential equation (a term coined by Richard Courant) is a second order partial differential equation of the form : where , such that the quadratic form : can be reduced by a linear change of variables to the form : It is not possible to arbitrarily specify the value of the solution on a non-characteristic hypersurface. John's paper however does give examples of manifolds on which an arbitrary specification of ''u'' can be extended to a solution. ==References== * * Á. Kurusa, A characterization of the Radon transform's range by a system of PDEs, J. Math. Anal. Appl., 161(1991), 218--226. * S K Patch, Consistency conditions upon 3D CT data and the wave equation, Phys. Med. Biol. 47 No 15 (7 August 2002) 2637-2650 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「John's equation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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