Patent ID: 8280124

Claim:
A method for selecting a set of optimal views of a volume to be imaged by radioactive-emission, after an administration of a radiopharmaceutical, the method comprising: providing the volume to be imaged; providing a collection of views of the volume to be imaged, each said view is associated with at least one viewing parameter selected from a group consisting of a detector location, a detector orientation, a viewing angle, a detector material, a detector thickness, a collimator length, a septa thickness, a cell size, a detection duration, a time of detection, and a type of the radiopharmaceutical; providing a scoring function, by which any set of at least one view from the collection is scorable with a score that rates information obtained from the volume by the set; forming sets of views and scoring them, by the scoring function; selecting a set of views from the collection, based on the scoring function; and instructing a three dimensional (3D) reconstruction of an intensity distribution in at least some of the volume from radioactive-emission measurements of said selected set of views.