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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 19, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2015
Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, Otawara-Shi, JP;
Manabu Teshigawara, Otawara, JP;
Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, Otawara-Shi, JP;
Abstract
According to one embodiment, an X-ray computed tomography apparatus includes an X-ray tube, collimators including through holes respectively collimating an X-ray and diffraction bodies provided in the holes respectively, diffracting the X-ray at an angle to an X-ray energy, X-ray detection elements provided at predetermined distances from the bodies, counting circuitry counting the number of photons originating from the X-ray, storage circuitry storing statistical information, corresponding to energy bins in the X-ray, concerning a count distribution of count values with positions of the elements, classification circuitry classifying the numbers of counted photons for the bins by using the information, reconstruction circuitry reconstructing a medical image to the bins based on the number of photons classified for the bins.