Patent ID: 7869862

Claim:
A method of generating one or more images of a portion of a body, comprising: introducing a contrast agent into the body; generating a first set of image data using radiation at a first energy level after the contrast agent is introduced into the body; generating a second set of image data using radiation at a second energy level after the contrast agent is introduced into the body; creating a contrast-enhanced volumetric composite image using the first and the second sets of image data, wherein the contrast-enhanced volumetric composite image is created such that at least a portion of the contrast-enhanced volumetric composite image has a feature indicating cancerous tissue, and that an image contrast for bone and tissue that does not contain the contrast agent at another portion of the contrast-enhanced volumetric composite image is reduced; at least one of storing the contrast-enhanced volumetric composite image and displaying the contrast-enhanced volumetric composite image; determining information regarding time-resolved kinetics of the contrast agent in the body based at least in part on the volumetric composite image; providing a first graphic that indicates the determined information; and providing a second graphic that indicates time-resolved kinetics of a contrast agent in normal tissue, the contrast agent in the normal tissue being a same type as the contrast agent in the body; wherein the first and second graphics are provided in a same graph for comparison.