Constant image quality CT scanner with variable radiation flux d

Details Constant image quality CT scanner with variable radiation flux d Constant image quality CT scanner with variable radiation flux d

1992-03-24

1993-07-13

Porta, David P.

X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices

Specific application

Computerized tomography

378 4, 378 95, 378146, 378108, G21K 510

Patent

active

052280705

ABSTRACT:
An x-ray source (20) rotates about a fixed cylinder (16) within which a subject of non-uniform cross-section is received. Radiation from the x-ray source passes through the subject and impinges on an arc of radiation detectors (28). Because the subject is of non-uniform cross-section, the average x-ray energy fluence impinging on the detectors across the arc varies with the relative angular position of the x-ray source and the subject. In one embodiment, a motor (18) which rotates the x-ray tube relative to the subject is controlled by a digital motor control (50). The digital motor control varies the rotational speed to a preselected angular velocity indicated by a look-up table (52) at each of a multiplicity of angular positions around the subject. The angular velocity is slowed when radiation is passing through thicker portions of the subject and accelerated when passing through thinner portions of the subject such that the average x-ray energy fluence received by the radiation detectors is substantially constant regardless of the angular position of the x-ray source. In another embodiment, an x-ray tube control circuit (82) alters the tube current such that the average x-ray energy fluence received by the detectors becomes angular position independent. In this manner, the signal-to-noise ratio at each angular position is the same and structural noise is eliminated in the resultant reconstructed image.

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