sinogram_center_shift — TOMOGRAPHY geometry op

Data kinds: sinogramsinogram

Call: import tomography; tomography.sinogram_center_shift(sinogram, shift_px=None, angles_deg=None) (or opstomography.get("sinogram_center_shift"))

Usage

Re-centre a sinogram on its axis of rotation.

Shifts every projection by `-shift_px` along the detector axis with linear

interpolation. With `shift_px=None` the shift is measured first by

:func:sinogram_center_of_rotation, which makes this the one-call fix.

Round-trip on the Shepp-Logan phantom, shifting by *d* and back:

d max |error| relative to the peak line integral

1.00 px 0.0e+00 0.0e+00 (an integer shift is exact)

0.50 px 1.4e-01 1.2e-01

0.25 px 1.1e-01 9.2e-02

A *fractional* shift is not a small operation and this is the operator's

honest limitation: 12 % of the peak, on a phantom with sharp edges, from one

round trip. Interpolation is a low-pass filter and the sinogram of an edge is

not band-limited, so there is nothing to recover on the way back. Using a

Fourier shift instead would trade this visible blur for invisible ringing at

the detector edges, which is worse in the way that matters here. The

consequence is in :func:sinogram_center_of_rotation's table: an integer

centre error is fully repairable, a half-pixel one is not.

:param sinogram: `(n_angles, n_detectors)`.

:param shift_px: axis offset in detector bins; `None` -> measure it.

:param angles_deg: view angles, used only when *shift_px* is `None`.

:returns: `(n_angles, n_detectors)` float64 sinogram.

:raises ValueError: if `|shift_px|` is at or past half the detector width —

past that the object has been shifted out of the field of view and what

comes back is edge padding, which reconstructs as a plausible, empty slice.

References (sample data, literature)

• Sample-data catalog (download URLs / licences) — 2-D uses skimage.data (BSD/public domain) plus synthetic images; 3-D lists download URLs for real data sources (Stanford, PDS, …).

• Operator provenance and references — the sources of the research/methods this op family came from.

• The canonical algorithm (author, year) and its uses are named in the family usage guide above.

Runnable examples (verified samples that actually call this op)

ct_reconstructionpy -3.11 examples/ct_reconstruction.py

Ops the type connects to (they accept sinogram as input)

backproject_sinogram · filtered_backprojection · sart_reconstruct · beam_hardening_apply · beam_hardening_correct · ring_artifact_apply · ring_artifact_remove · metal_trace_interpolate

Same category (geometry)

sinogram_center_of_rotation


*Provenance: tomography.py — TOMOGRAPHY operator registry. This per-op note is generated by tools/opdocs.py md (do not hand-edit).*

© 2026 Kazufumi Furuse — Fullseye operator documentation. Licensed under Apache-2.0.