Method and apparatus for spiral scan computed tomography

US7215805B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Herbert Bruder · Hemhofen, DE
• Thomas Flohr · Uehlfeld, DE
• Marc Kachelriess · Nuremberg, DE
• Stefan Schaller · Ergolding, DE
• Karl Stierstorfer · Erlangen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 12, 2002
• Grant date: May 8, 2007
• Expiry date: Feb 28, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S378/901
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

In a method for computed tomography and a computed tomography apparatus for scanning a subject with a conical ray beam emanating from a focus that detects a matrix-like detector array, the focus is moved relative to the subject on a spiral path around a system axis, and the detector array supplies output data corresponding to the incident radiation, and images having an inclined image plane are reconstructed from output data respectively supplied during the movement of the focus on a spiral segment, the image planes of these images are inclined by an inclination angle γ around a first axis intersecting the system axis at a right angle and also are inclined by a tilt angle δ with respect to the system axis around a second axis that intersects the first axis as well as the system axis at a right angle.