circle an arc of a cylinder or flat panels the detectors 130 can transmit the projection data to the computer system 135 or other system processor or processors which can reconstruct an image from the projection data the computer 135 can in some embodiments transmit this image to a sub system for display and possible archiving which in one embodiment can be the computer 39 s display 135 d in one embodiment the computer 135 can be a silicon graphics o2 computing platform silicon graphics inc mountain view calif usa or any other suitable single or multiprocessor computing system such as those further described herein below the image reconstruction systems and methods can be executed on one or more system processors additionally the systems and methods can be programmed in any programming language that one skilled in the art would find appropriate in one embodiment the system can be programmed in idl interactive data language from research systems boulder colo usa rotation of gantry 110 and the operation of x ray source 105 are governed by a control mechanism of ct system 100 the control mechanism can reside inside or outside of computer 135 and can include an x ray controller that provides power and timing signals to x ray source 105 and any gantry motor controller that controls the rotational speed and position of gantry 110 a data acquisition system in the control mechanism can sample analog data from detector elements 130 and convert the data to digital signals for subsequent processing in some embodiments these digital signals can be stored in a system data store sds described in further detail below an image reconstructor using the methods described in attachments 1 and 2 can receive sampled and.