Patent ID: 7693565
Filing Date: 2010-04-06
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. A medical imaging system for automatically positioning a structure of interest within a field of view of an imaging detector, comprising: at least one imaging detector for detecting radiation, the imaging detector having a field of view (FOV), the imaging detector configured to detect a first image while at a first system position with respect to a predetermined reference point and to detect a second image at a second system position; a structure detecting module configured to automatically detect a structure of interest based on a count rate associated with the first image, the structure detecting module further configured to determine whether at least a portion of the structure of interest is within the FOV and to automatically determine a corresponding system position with respect to the predetermined reference point at which more of the structure of interest will be positioned within the FOV of the imaging detector at the corresponding system position based on the count rates associated with the first and second images; and a controller configured to move the FOV of the imaging detector to the corresponding system position.