Patent ID: 7734079

Claim:
A method for producing an image of an object with a multi-slice imaging apparatus, said method comprising: generating a first partial image using projection data acquired at a first imaging position in a step-and-shoot imaging mode, wherein the first projection data is weighted using: p 2 ⁡ ( γ , β , z ) = ∑ k = 1 K ⁢ ⁢ w ⁡ ( k ) ⁢ p ⁡ ( γ , β , k + i z ) z specifies the location of the reconstructed image in terms of detector rows, i z is the integer portion of z, w(k) is the interpolation coefficients, and p(γ, β, i) represents a projection sample acquired with detector angle γ, projection angle β, and detector row i generating a second partial image using projection data acquired at a second single imaging position; and combining the partial images to form a final image.