diff --git a/skimage/transform/radon_transform.py b/skimage/transform/radon_transform.py
index fffe4e6f..2733e243 100644
--- a/skimage/transform/radon_transform.py
+++ b/skimage/transform/radon_transform.py
@@ -79,11 +79,10 @@ def radon(image, theta=None, circle=False):
         widthpad = int(np.ceil(diagonal - width))
         padded_image = np.zeros((int(height + heightpad),
                                 int(width + widthpad)))
-        y0 = int(np.ceil(heightpad / 2))
-        y1 = int((np.ceil(heightpad / 2) + height))
-        x0 = int((np.ceil(widthpad / 2)))
-        x1 = int((np.ceil(widthpad / 2) + width))
-
+        y0 = heightpad // 2
+        y1 = y0 + height
+        x0 = widthpad // 2
+        x1 = x0 + width
         padded_image[y0:y1, x0:x1] = image
         out = np.zeros((max(padded_image.shape), len(theta)))
 
@@ -109,7 +108,7 @@ def radon(image, theta=None, circle=False):
     for i in range(len(theta)):
         rotated = _warp_fast(padded_image, build_rotation(theta[i]))
 
-        out[:, i] = rotated.sum(0)[::-1]
+        out[:, i] = rotated.sum(0)
 
     return out
 
diff --git a/skimage/transform/tests/test_radon_transform.py b/skimage/transform/tests/test_radon_transform.py
index 8e31c658..9a03b1f2 100644
--- a/skimage/transform/tests/test_radon_transform.py
+++ b/skimage/transform/tests/test_radon_transform.py
@@ -16,13 +16,9 @@ def rescale(x):
 
 
 def check_radon_center(shape, circle):
-    # Determine the center of an array as defined by the fft
-    ft_image = np.abs(ifftshift(ifftn(np.ones(shape))))**2
-    fft_center = np.unravel_index(np.argmax(ft_image), shape)
-    print('fft_center =', fft_center)
     # Create a test image with only a single non-zero pixel at the origin
     image = np.zeros(shape, dtype=np.float)
-    image[fft_center] = 1.
+    image[(shape[0] // 2, shape[1] // 2)] = 1.
     # Calculate the sinogram
     theta = np.linspace(0., 180., max(shape), endpoint=False)
     sinogram = radon(image, theta=theta, circle=circle)