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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2002
Filed:
Jul. 09, 2001
Hiroyuki Kawai, Tokyo, JP;
Kenichi Okajima, Mitaka, JP;
Hitachi Medical Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An X-ray CT apparatus includes a scanner mounted with a detection system having an X-ray source for generating X-rays applied radially to an object and a detector arranged so as to be opposite to the X-ray source and adapted to detect the image of the transmitted X-rays transmitted through the object, wherein the scanner is rotated around the object. A three-dimensional X-ray absorption coefficient distribution image of the object is reconstructed from the transmitted X-ray image and the rotation-axis projection position which is the position where the rotation center of the scanner is projected on the detection plane of a two-dimensional sensor constituting the detector is decided. On the basis of the contrast of the X-ray absorption coefficient distribution image reconstructed by using the decided rotation-axis projection position, the rotation-axis projection position is estimated, and an X-ray tomographic image or/and a three dimensional X-ray image of the object is generated.