Patent ID: 8170315

Claim:
A method for producing an image of a subject positioned in a field of view (FOV) of a medical imaging system, the steps comprising: a) acquiring with the medical imaging system a plurality of views of the subject positioned in the FOV; b) producing an image frame data set from selected views acquired in step a); c) producing a composite image from views acquired in step a) wherein the views combined to produce the composite image includes the views in the image frame data set and additional acquired views; d) reconstructing a normalized weighting image of the subject, which comprises: d)i) producing a limited composite data set from the composite image which contains views corresponding to the selected views in the image frame data set; d)ii) blurring the image frame data set with a filter function; d)iii) blurring the limited composite data set with a filter function; d)iv) calculating the normalized weighting image by dividing the blurred image frame data set by the blurred limited composite data set; and e) producing a highly constrained image of the subject in the FOV by multiplying pixel values in the normalized weighting image by the corresponding pixel values in the composite image.