Patent ID: 7428289
Filing Date: 2008-09-23
Classification: G06T

Abstract:
1. An X-ray CT system comprising: a parameter designating device for designating parameters for producing a second tomographic image from a plurality of first tomographic images, said parameters designated prior to a scan for producing said plurality of first tomographic images; an X-ray source; an X-ray detector opposed to said X-ray source such that a subject may be positioned between said X-ray detector and said X-ray source, said X-ray detector detecting X-rays irradiated from said X-ray source to the subject, and said X-ray source being rotated about the subject and moved to produce said plurality of first tomographic images and said second tomographic image; an image producing device for producing said plurality of first tomographic images representing sections that are orthogonal to a body axis extending between a head of the subject and feet of the subject, said plurality of first tomographic images produced at predetermined positions with respect to the subject; and an image processing device for producing said second tomographic image from said plurality of first tomographic images according to said designated parameters, said second tomographic image representing a predetermined section parallel to the body axis.