Multislice CT is the stateoftheart for clinical computed tomography (CT) scanning. There was an evolution from single slice CT to multislice which happened over several years.

We reveal several reasons why multislice CT has taken over and single slice CT is no longer produced for medical CT. These include:

Chapters:
00:00 Slice wars in CT introduction
00:53. A comparison of single slice vs multislice architecture.
02:03 Multislice CT enables isotropic resolution in reformat images (sagittal and coronal).
03:04. Multislice CT has a higher dose efficiency than single slice CT.
04:28. Multislice CT makes better use of the xray tube power.
05:20. Multislice CT can still produce thick slices.
05:44. Multislice CT evolution to volume coverage scanning.
07:07. Methods to increase the z resolution (flying focal spot, conjugate ray backprojection).
09:47. Why CT scanners should not be specified by the number of slices.