Patent ID: 8411915

Claim:
A method of respiratory and cardiac movement compensated diagnostic imaging comprising: monitoring respiratory activity of a subject during an imaging scan with a first imaging modality; monitoring cardiac activity of the subject during the scan; binning raw image data acquired during the scan in accordance with its occurrence in both respiratory and cardiac phases; reconstructing the binned raw data into a plurality of heart images in each of a plurality of respiratory and cardiac phases; transforming images of the plurality of images which have different respiratory phases into a series of respiratory compensated images at the plurality of cardiac phases and at a selected common respiratory phase; transforming the series of respiratory compensated images in accordance with a heart shape and motion model to generate a series of cardiac and respiratory compensated images in a selected common cardiac phase and the selected common respiratory phase, wherein the heart shape and motion model models the entire shape of a heart; and, combining the images in the selected common cardiac and respiratory phases.