Discrete tomography determination of bounded lattice sets from four X-rays

We deal with the question of uniqueness, namely to decide when an unknown finite set of points in Z 2 is uniquely determined by its X-rays corresponding to a given set S of lattice directions. In Hajdu (2005) [11] proved that for any fixed rectangle A in Z 2 there exists a non trivial set S of four lattice directions, depending only on the size of A, such that any two subsets of A can be distinguished by means of their X-rays taken in the directions in S. The proof was given by explicitly constructing a suitable set S in any possible case. We improve this result by showing that in fact whole families of suitable sets of four directions can be found, for which we provide a complete characterization. This permits us to easily solve some related problems and the computational aspects.