X-ray computed tomographic imaging device and x-ray computed tomographic method

Abstract

A computed tomography method and system where a voxel of a subject irradiated with x-rays is divided into an plurality of sub-voxels, and backprojection data is obtained for the sub-voxels. Projection data for the sub-voxels can be weighted before backprojecting, or the projection data can be backprojected and then weighted. With the method according to the invention, instead of backprojecting data on a straight line passing through the center of a voxel, the beam passing through the entire voxel is backprojected. Also, the method and system weights the sub-voxels using a space-variant function. The weighting can be applied to discrete sub-voxels or integration can be used with infinitely thin sub-voxels. The present invention is a more accurate method and can take into account of spreading of the x-ray beam.

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