Solution

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The two boundary values have jump
The line-tail contributions cancel. Because the complexified transport Cauchy kernel is holomorphic on both sides of the unit circle and vanishes at spectral infinity, the Cauchy integral formula reconstructs it from this jump:
There is no additional entire term: its inside and outside boundary values would agree, so it would define an entire function vanishing at infinity. Expand outside the circle as . Then
In the original coordinate , the transport equation is . Its constant term at infinity is . Since
we obtain the inverse Radon transform in filtered backprojection form:
Opposite directions represent the same unoriented line. Reversing by reverses ; the Hilbert transform changes sign under this reversal, and its derivative changes it back. Thus the integrand agrees for opposite directions and the factor becomes if the angular integral is over . With the convention , the Hilbert transform has Fourier multiplier ; the derivative makes the filter . This also identifies the formula with the standard ramp-filter reconstruction.

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