Discussion 5 (2019-10-8/9) Medical Imaging - GSI: KLB Fung

Discussion 5
All problems are taken from Gaskill with some phrasing differences.

1 LSI Systems
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(a) Q5-3: Consider the system S{f (x)} = 0.5 −∞ f (α)dα.

(a) Is the system linear? Shift invariant?

(b) Calculate and sketch the output for f (x) = u x−2 x+2



4 . Repeat for f (x) = 2 u 4 .
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(b) Q5-4: Consider the system S{f (x)} = −∞ f (α)e−i2πkα dα|k= xa . = F (x/a) where F (k) is the
Fourier transform of f (x) and a has units of x2 .

(a) Is the system linear? Shift invariant?

(b) Calculate and sketch the output for f (x) = u (x). Repeat for f (x) = 2 u (x) and
f (x) = u(x − 2).

2 Fourier Transforms
Abstain from citing Fourier properties as much as possible in these problems - expand the integral
to prove the property, substituting the Fourier Pair.
Q7-2: with F{f (x)} = F (k) as an arbitrary Fourier transform pair, and with x0 , k0 and b as
real constants, show that:
(a) F{δ x−x } = |b|e−i2πx0 k


0
b

(b) F{f (x) ∗ δ x−x } = |b|F (k)e−i2πx0 k

0
b

(c) F{f (x)δ (x − x0 )} = f (x0 )e−i2πx0 k

(d) f (x) ∗ ei2πk0 x = F (k0 )ei2πk0 x

3 Working in 2D
(a) Q9-1 Perform the following convolutions, and sketch it out (sketch profiles along diagonals,
top view, to give yourself a sense of the 2D object)

(a) u(x, y) ∗ ∗ u (xy)

(b) u0.5x, y) ∗ ∗ u (x, 0.5y)
y
x y
(c) Gaus x5 , 12


∗ ∗Gaus 12 ,5 .

(b) Q9-2 Compute the Fourier transforms of the following functions and sketch profiles of the
results:

(a) u(0.5x, 2y)

(b) u(2x + 2, 0.1y) + u(2x − 2, 0.1y)

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