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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 2004
Filed:
May. 20, 2002
Shunichiro Tanigawa, Tokyo, JP;
GE Medical Systems Global Technology Company, LLC, Waukesha, WI (US);
Abstract
In order to efficiently obtain projection data having a variety of slice widths (slice patterns) in one scan, an X-ray CT apparatus is provided in which an X-ray tube and an X-ray detector are opposed to each other interposing a subject in which detector a multiplicity of X-ray detector elements are linearly arranged in the channel arrangement direction to form a plurality of rows in the subject body axis direction, for reconstructing a CT tomographic image of the subject based on detected signals from the X-ray detector, wherein the X-ray CT apparatus comprises signal duplicating means for duplicating channel detected signals of the X-ray detector and distributing the duplicated signals to a plurality of groups a, b, etc.; and signal combining means that can combine the distributed duplicated signals in each group in an arbitrary pattern across the detector rows for each channel.