Patent ID: 7162004

Claim:
A medical imaging diagnosis method performed in a medical imaging diagnosis apparatus having an examination couch having a couch table top board for a subject person, a PET gantry for collecting PET data, and a CT gantry for collecting X-ray CT data, the method comprising: moving the couch table top board in a direction of the CT gantry from a state in which the CT gantry is placed in parallel with the PET gantry and at a position most proximate to the PET gantry so that the subject person is inserted into the CT gantry at one end portion of the CT gantry, moving the CT gantry in a direction away from the PET gantry so that the subject person is inserted into the CT gantry from the one end portion to the other end portion of the CT gantry for a CT scan of the whole body of the subject person while collecting the X-ray CT data by the CT gantry; and moving the couch table top board in a direction of the PET gantry so that the subject person is inserted into the PET gantry from one end portion to the other end portion of the PET gantry for a PET scan of the whole body while collecting the PET data by the PET gantry during a single examination.