CONE-BEAM CT HALF-CYCLE CLOSED HELICAL TRAJECTORY

摘要

A tomographic apparatus (10) includes radiation source (20), at least one radiation sensitive detector (30), and a reconstruction system (40). The radiation source (20) sweeps along a z-axis (16) and returns to its initial position in coordination with about two revolutions of the radiation source (20) about an imaging region (32) with a frequency of about half a frequency of a revolution of the radiation source (20) about the imaging region (32). The at least one radiation sensitive detector (30) detects radiation emitted by the radiation source (20) that traverses a volume of interest (52) within the imaging region (32) and generates data indicative of the detected radiation. The reconstruction system (40) reconstructs the detected data to generate an image of a subject in the volume of interest (52).