How does one derive the dirac notation for the Radon transform?

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For $r\in \mathbb R$ and $\theta \in [0,2\pi]$ and a compactly supported function $f$ on $\mathbb R^2$ one defines the radon transform of it as $$\mathcal Rf(r,\theta):= \int_{-\infty}^{\infty} f(r \cos \theta- s \sin \theta, r \sin \theta + s \cos \theta) \, ds.$$

It is very common to express it with the dirac notation:

$$\mathcal Rf(r,\theta):= \int_{-\infty}^{\infty} \int_{-\infty}^{\infty}f(x,y)\delta(r-x\cos\theta-y\sin\theta) \, dx\,dy.$$

How does one derive the second expression from the first one? I normally see an intuitive geometrical explanation of the first expression but then in the literature it is often just stated "... or equivalently" for the second expression.

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Let me start from $$ \mathcal Rf(r,\theta) := \int_{-\infty}^{\infty} \int_{-\infty}^{\infty}f(x,y) \,\delta(r-x\cos\theta-y\sin\theta) \, dx\,dy. $$ Making the coordinate transformation/substitution $$ \begin{cases} x &= t\cos\theta - s\sin\theta \\ y &= t\sin\theta + s\cos\theta \\ \end{cases} $$ gives $$\begin{align} \mathcal Rf(r,\theta) &= \int_{-\infty}^{\infty} \int_{-\infty}^{\infty} f(t\cos\theta - s\sin\theta, t\sin\theta + s\cos\theta) \,\delta(r-t) \,dt \,ds. \end{align}$$ We can now easily evaluate the $t$ integral giving: $$\begin{align} \mathcal Rf(r,\theta) &= \int_{-\infty}^{\infty} f(r\cos\theta - s\sin\theta, r\sin\theta + s\cos\theta) \,ds. \end{align}$$