Patent ID: 7466849

Claim:
A method for acquisition and evaluation of image data of an examination subject that are to be created with at least one medical imaging apparatus comprising the steps of: generating a whole body overview image of the examination subject and selecting an anatomical region in the whole-body overview image; electronically establishing a point in the selected anatomical region, said point forming the origin of a whole-body coordinate system relating to the examination subject, and electronically establishing an associated, subject-related coordinate system; in a subsequent examination with a medical imaging apparatus, re-creating a new image selected from the group consisting of a new whole-body overview image of the examination subject containing said origin, a new whole-body overview image of the examination subject containing another marker point, a partial image of the examination subject containing the origin, and a partial image of the examination subject containing another marker point, and generating examination images of the examination subject; and using said new image, automatically electronically spatially arranging the examination images in said whole body coordinate system by comparing at least one item of image information in each examination image with at least one item of information of the new image that is related to the whole-body coordinate system.