US Patent 7215735 CT image production method and X-ray CT system

A method to make a common procedure adaptable to reconstruction planes whose positions relative to a multi-channel detector are different from one another. A reference procedure required for construction of a CT image based on reference linear data representing one line or a plurality of lines formed on a reference reconstruction plane is preserved. Real data associated with a first reconstruction plane different from the reference reconstruction plane is used to produce virtual reference linear data equivalent to the reference linear data. A CT image is reconstructed based on the virtual reference linear data using the reference procedure.