 Attenuated Radon transform

The integral of a source over a directed line, weighted by exponential absorption between each source point and a detector. For line coordinates $x=p\mathbf{n}+s\mathbf{d}$ and a detector at the negative end, it is $\int f(p,s)\exp [-{\int }_{-\infty }^s\mu (p,r)dr]ds$. The integrating factor of a transport equation derives the weight. Reversing the detector direction changes the weight for spatially varying attenuation, so the two directed measurements need not coincide. Setting $\mu =0$ recovers the Radon transform.