Patent ID: 7397887

Claim:
A computerized tomographic imaging system for generating an image of an object of interest, the system comprising: a first source-detector pair mounted to rotate around the object of interest, wherein the first source-detector pair comprises a first radiation source and a first radiation detector having a first number of detector elements, wherein the first radiation source emits a first radiation beam towards the first radiation detector with a first radiation power per detector element such that the first radiation beam traverses the object of interest and impinges onto the first radiation detector; a second source-detector pair mounted to rotate around the object of interest, wherein the second source-detector pair comprises a second radiation source and a second radiation detector with a second number of detector elements, wherein the second radiation source emits a second radiation beam towards the second radiation detector with a second radiation power per detector element such that the second radiation beam traverses the object of interest and impinges onto the second radiation detector; wherein the second number of detector elements is smaller than the first number of detector elements and the first radiation power per detector element matches the second radiation power per detector element and a first surface area of the first radiation detector exceeds a second surface area of the second radiation detector by a third surface area; a supplementation unit which generates a first complete data set from a first radiation detector readouts and a second data set from a second radiation detector readouts in combination with a portion of the first data set corresponding to the third surface area, such that two complete data sets are generated; a reconstruction processor for reconstructing an image representation from the first and second complete data sets.