Ct scanner pitch is a measurement of?

CT scanner pitch is a measurement that describes the relationship between the table movement and the width of the x-ray beam during a scan. Specifically, it is defined as the distance the table moves in one rotation of the x-ray tube divided by the total width of the scanned slice. A higher pitch value indicates a faster scan with less overlap between slices, while a lower pitch value can provide higher image quality but at the cost of longer scan times.