Abstract: A CT device for imaging slices that are inclined toward the system axis has an input unit for the entering the position of at least one slice that is to be imaged and that is inclined toward the system axis. A volume which completely contains the slice that is to be imaged and that is inclined toward the system axis is scanned by initially generating planar tomograms from the data acquired during the scanning of the volume, and the tomogram of a desired slice that is inclined toward the system axis is produced from these planar tomograms by multi-planar reconstruction.

Abstract: A computed tomography apparatus has a radiation detector formed by several parallel detector rows of detector elements. A flexible selection of slices is enabled with a simple construction by constructing the detector from a series of detector modules. Each detector module is formed by several parallel sub-modules, and each sub-module is formed by a series of detector elements. The series of detector elements can be formed by slits in the module. Each detector element is constructed on the basis of a ceramic scintillator with a subsequently connected photodetector.

Abstract: A computer tomographic system provides 3-D (three-dimensional) images of interior portions of a body, by scanning in a plurality of substantially orthogonal planes to obtain projection data on a 2-D (two-dimensional) detector surface, for each rotational position within a scanning plane and for each scanning plane. Reconstruction of the image data is obtained by backprojecting the projection data from each plane, and adding together the backprojected values from each plane for providing a 3-D mesh of the image data.