Fractional derivatives, splines and tomography
Journal
European Signal Processing Conference
Journal Volume
2015-March
Journal Issue
March
Date Issued
2000-03-31
Author(s)
Abstract
We develop a spline calculus for dealing with fractional derivatives. After a brief review of fractional splines, we present the main formulas for computing the fractional derivatives of the underlying basis functions. In particular, we show that the γ th fractional derivative of a B-spline of degree α (not necessarily integer) is given by the γth fractional difference of a B-spline of degree α-γ. We use these results to derive an improved version the filtered backprojection algorithm for tomographic reconstruction. The projection data is first interpolated with splines; the continuous model is then used explicitly for an exact implementation of the filtering and backprojection steps.
Type
conference paper