diff --git a/examples/plot_udct.py b/examples/plot_udct.py
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+"""
+Uniform Discrete Curvelet Transform
+===================================
+This example shows how to use the :py:class:`pylops.signalprocessing.UDCT` operator to perform the
+Uniform Discrete Curvelet Transform on a (multi-dimensional) input array.
+"""
+
+
+from ucurv import *
+import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
+import pylops
+plt.close("all")
+
+if False:
+    sz = [512, 512]
+    cfg = [[3, 3], [6,6]]
+    res = len(cfg)
+    rsq = zoneplate(sz)
+    img = rsq - np.mean(rsq)
+
+    transform = udct(sz, cfg, complex = False, high = "curvelet")
+
+    imband = ucurvfwd(img, transform)
+    plt.figure(figsize = (20, 60))
+    print(imband.keys())
+    plt.imshow(np.abs(ucurv2d_show(imband, transform))) 
+    # plt.show()
+
+    recon = ucurvinv(imband, transform)
+
+    err = img - recon
+    print(np.max(np.abs(err)))
+    plt.figure(figsize = (20, 60))
+    plt.imshow(np.real(np.concatenate((img, recon, err), axis = 1)))
+
+    plt.figure()
+    plt.imshow(np.abs(np.fft.fftshift(np.fft.fftn(err))))   
+    # plt.show()
+
+################################################################################
+
+
+sz = [256, 256]
+cfg = [[3,3],[6,6]]
+x = np.random.rand(256*256)
+y = np.random.rand(262144)
+F = pylops.signalprocessing.UDCT(sz,cfg)
+print(np.dot(y,F*x))
+print(np.dot(x,F.T*y))
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diff --git a/pylops/signalprocessing/udct.py b/pylops/signalprocessing/udct.py
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+__all__ = ["UDCT"]
+
+from typing import Any, NewType, Union
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from pylops import LinearOperator
+from pylops.utils import deps
+from pylops.utils._internal import _value_or_sized_to_tuple
+from pylops.utils.decorators import reshaped
+from pylops.utils.typing import DTypeLike, InputDimsLike, NDArray
+from ucurv import *
+
+ucurv_message = deps.ucurv_import("the ucurv module")
+
+class UDCT(LinearOperator):
+    def __init__(self, sz, cfg, complex = False, sparse = False, dtype=None):
+        self.udct = udct(sz, cfg, complex, sparse)
+        self.shape = (self.udct.len, np.prod(sz))
+        self.dtype = np.dtype(dtype)
+        self.explicit = False    
+        self.rmatvec_count = 0
+        self.matvec_count = 0
+    def _matvec(self, x):
+        img = x.reshape(self.udct.sz)
+        band = ucurvfwd(img, self.udct)
+        bvec = bands2vec(band)        
+        return bvec
+
+    def _rmatvec(self, x):
+        band = vec2bands(x, self.udct)
+        recon = ucurvinv(band, self.udct)
+        recon2 = recon.reshape(self.udct.sz)
+        return recon2
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diff --git a/pytests/test_udct.py b/pytests/test_udct.py
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+import numpy as np
+import pytest
+
+from pylops.signalprocessing import UDCT
+
+from ucurv import *
+
+import numpy as np
+
+eps = 1e-6
+shapes = [
+    [[256, 256], ],
+    [[32, 32, 32], ],
+    [[16, 16, 16, 16], ]
+]
+
+configurations = [
+    [[[3, 3]], 
+     [[6, 6]],
+     [[12, 12]],
+     [[12, 12], [24, 24]],
+     [[12, 12], [3, 3], [6, 6]],
+     [[12, 12], [3, 3], [6, 6], [24, 24]], 
+    ], 
+    [[[3, 3, 3]], 
+     [[6, 6, 6]],
+     [[12, 12, 12]],
+     [[12, 12, 12], [24, 24, 24]],
+    # [[12, 12, 12], [3, 3, 3], [6, 6, 6]],
+    # [[12, 12, 12], [3, 3, 3], [6, 6, 6], [12, 24, 24]], 
+    ], 
+    [[[3, 3, 3, 3]], 
+    #  [[6, 6, 6, 6]],
+    #  [[12, 12, 12, 12]],
+    #  [[12, 12, 12, 12], [24, 24, 24, 24]],
+    #  [[12, 12, 12, 12], [3, 3, 3, 3], [6, 6, 6, 6]],
+    #  [[12, 12, 12, 12], [3, 3, 3, 3], [6, 6, 6, 6], [12, 24, 24, 24]], 
+    ], 
+]
+
+combinations = [
+    (shape, config) 
+    for shape_list, config_list in zip(shapes, configurations) 
+    for shape in shape_list 
+    for config in config_list
+]
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("shape, cfg", combinations)
+def test_ucurv(shape, cfg):
+    data = np.random.rand(*shape)
+    tf = udct(shape, cfg)
+    band = ucurvfwd(data, tf)
+    recon = ucurvinv(band, tf)
+    are_close = np.all(np.isclose(data, recon, atol=eps))
+    assert(are_close == True)
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("shape, cfg", combinations)
+def test_vectorize(shape, cfg):
+    data = np.random.rand(*shape)
+    tf = udct(shape, cfg)
+    band = ucurvfwd(data, tf)
+    flat = bands2vec(band)
+    unflat = vec2bands(flat, tf)
+    recon = ucurvinv(band, tf)
+    are_close = np.all(np.isclose(data, recon, atol=eps))
+    assert(are_close == True)
+