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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 11, 2008
Filed:
Mar. 10, 2003
Hermann Schomberg, Hamburg, DE;
Hermann Schomberg, Hamburg, DE;
Koninklijke Philips Electronics, N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
The invention relates to an X-ray apparatus which includes an X-ray source () for the emission of a conical X-ray beam and an X-ray detector () for the multiple detection of the X-rays after their passage through an object to be examined, being arranged along an object axis (), while the X-ray source () and the X-ray detector () are displaced along a trajectory. In order to increase the size of the reconstructable examination zone without increasing the size of the X-ray detector, and in order to minimize the problem caused by projections truncated in the transverse direction, the invention proposes an X-ray apparatus which includes means () for changing the position and/or the orientation of the X-ray detector () relative to the X-ray source () and a control unit () for displacing the X-ray source () and the X-ray detector () along the trajectory and for controlling the position and/or the orientation of the X-ray detector () during the detection of the X-rays.