A diagnostic X-ray system includes an imaging system that generates image data
sets from shots by subjecting a patient to X-ray exposure, a supporting mechanism
that supports the imaging system movably with respect to the patient, a system
controller that controls the imaging system and the supporting mechanism in such
a manner that shots are repeated at each of a plurality of shot positions set discretely
along the body axis of the patient, and an image processing apparatus that generates
another image data set covering a range wider than the field of view of the imaging
system from the image data sets.