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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 2007
Filed:
May. 09, 2006
Yasuhiro Imai, Tokyo, JP;
Akihiko Nishide, Tokyo, JP;
Mitsuru Yahata, Tokyo, JP;
Masaya Kumazaki, Tokyo, JP;
Yasuhiro Imai, Tokyo, JP;
Akihiko Nishide, Tokyo, JP;
Mitsuru Yahata, Tokyo, JP;
Masaya Kumazaki, Tokyo, JP;
GE Medical Systems Global Technology Company, LLC, Waukesha, WI (US);
Abstract
With the object of realizing an X-ray CT apparatus which performs a plurality of pieces of imaging small in resolution degradation too simultaneously while suppressing an expansion of a data acquisition section that receives an electric signal of an X-ray detector, such an array that X-ray detectors in a channel direction are operated with the two as one pair is made by first detector switching means of a switching unit. This array moved by one X-ray detector in the channel direction is alternately repeated in the row or channel direction. Therefore, even when the number of receivers is small, data extending over a wide imaging range can simultaneously be collected while the degradation of resolution is being suppressed to a minor degree. By extension, imaging more coincident with an operator-aimed image can be done by making the switching use of imaging in high resolution.