Patent ID: 8483804

Claim:
A method for reconstructing images of structures undergoing physiological motion, comprising: acquiring a first volume of data over a first motion cycle, the first volume comprising a first overlap volume; acquiring a second volume of data over a second motion cycle, the second volume comprising a second overlap volume, the first and second overlap volumes comprising a same anatomical region with respect to each other; selecting at least one time t 1 for the data of the first overlap volume; reconstructing at least one image associated with the at least one time t 1 ; forming, using a processor, a reconstructed volume of data based on temporal data for the first and second overlap volumes using a difference in the same anatomical region corresponding to a difference in a mechanical state of the anatomical region in images of the first and second overlap regions, including comparing at least two images from within the second overlap volume to the at least one image to identify a set of images that have a minimum difference there-between, the reconstructed volume being based on the set of images.