Patent ID: 8455834

Claim:
A method for nuclear medicine (NM) imaging, the method comprising: generating images of a region of interest (ROI) from radioactive emissions from a localization radiopharmaceutical to position the ROI in a field-of-view (FOV) of a gamma camera based on the generated images of the ROI; and performing an imaging scan of the ROI, after positioning of the ROI in the FOV of the gamma camera, using an imaging radiopharmaceutical to acquire image data of the ROI, wherein the imaging radiopharmaceutical is different than the localization radiopharmaceutical and the images of the ROI for positioning the ROI in the FOV of the gamma camera are generated from radioactive emissions acquired from the localization radiopharmaceutical at a different time than radioactive emissions acquired from the imaging radiopharmaceutical during the imaging scan.