Optimal density compensation factors for the reconstruction of the Fourier transform of bandlimited functions

Melanie Kircheis, Daniel Potts

Abstract:

An inverse nonequispaced fast Fourier transform (iNFFT) is a fast algorithm to compute the Fourier coefficients of a trigonometric polynomial from nonequispaced sampling data.
However, various applications such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are concerned with the analogous problem for bandlimited functions, i.e., the reconstruction of point evaluations of the Fourier transform from given measurements of the bandlimited function.
In this paper, we review an approach yielding exact reconstruction for trigonometric polynomials up to a certain degree, and extend this technique to the setting of bandlimited functions.
Here we especially focus on methods computing a diagonal matrix of weights needed for sampling density compensation.

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