An X-ray CT apparatus can be configured such that an amount of artifacts
of a tomographic image of a heart is reduced. For example, the X-ray CT
apparatus can include detecting means for detecting a static cardiac time
phase with a small amount of motion artifacts in a predetermined portion
of the subject based on heartbeat information acquired in association
with the projection data, and image reconstructing means for generating
the tomographic image by reconstructing projection data corresponding to
the static cardiac time phase detected by the detecting means.