Tomography time-frequency transform

The paper shows that the fractional Fourier transform (FRET) of a signal is the Radon transform of the time-frequency distribution of the same signal. Therefore, a time-frequency distribution known as the tomography time-frequency transform (TTFT) is defined as the inverse Radon transform of the FRFT of the signal. Because the computation of the TTFT does not explicitly require any window or kernel function, high resolutions in both the frequency and time domains can be achieved. When the signal contains multiple components, the cross terms can be effectively removed by an adaptive filtering process that is applied on the FRFT rather than the final result. Therefore, distortions made by the filtering process on the desired signal components can be minimized.