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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 05, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2012
Hitachi Medical Corporation, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Shinichi Kojima, Tokyo, JP;
Fumito Watanabe, Tokyo, JP;
Yasutaka Konno, Tokyo, JP;
Yushi Tsubota, Tokyo, JP;
Hitachi Medical Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In order to suppress reduction in sensitivity when acquiring high-resolution data, an X-ray CT device is provided with an X-ray source that irradiates a patient with X-rays, and an X-ray detector that detects the X-rays. The X-ray detector includes a plurality of detection elements (scintillators and photodiodes) arrayed in a first direction, and a plurality of separators that separate the detection elements arrayed in the first direction respectively from each other. The separators each have a first-direction width which is a width in the first direction, first-direction widths of some separators each arrayed every predetermined number of separators being different from first-direction widths of the other separators.