Patent ID: 7342992
Filing Date: 2008-03-11
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. An X-ray apparatus which includes: an X-ray source for the emission of a conical X-ray beam; 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; means for changing at least one of the position and 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, rotationally on a central axis of said beam, orientation of the X-ray detector during the detection of the X-rays, wherein the position and orientation of the X-ray detector relative to the X-ray source is over a range, and wherein the conical X-ray beam is wide enough to completely irradiate the X-ray detector over the entire range.