X-ray ct scanner using x-ray detector acquiring multi-slice data of unequal slice pitches

Abstract

An X-ray CT scanner for producing a CT image of a subject by scanning an X-ray fan beam radiated an X-ray source through the subject in a predetermined slice-thickness direction. The scanner comprises a main detector detecting the X-ray beam to produce an X-ray transmission data of a subject and to a plurality of slices in agreement with unequal segment pitches. The detector comprises a two-dimensional array consisting of a plurality of X-ray detecting elements receiving the X-ray beam and being disposed in the slice-thickness direction as a row line and a channel direction as a column line. The X-ray detection sensitivity distributions of all the segments formed by the detecting elements disposed in predetermined element pitches in the slice-thickness direction are adjusted to be uniform or approximately uniform by controlling various members, devices, or factors which are all controllable for X-ray detection sensitivity, thereby enabling the X-ray transmission data of unequal slice thicknesses to be adjusted in sensitivity slice by slice in the detector. The scanner further comprises a switch group selecting and combining the sensitivity-adjusted X-ray transmission data of the plurality of slices, the selected and combined X-ray transmission data being provided to selected ones of a data acquiring elements of a data acquisition system.