Patent ID: 8571633

Claim:
A medical imaging method for joints in living creatures, the method comprising the steps of: a. acquiring a dynamic sequence of x-ray images of at least one joint of a living creature over a range of motion, b. analyzing the dynamic x-ray image frames to identify at least a location within one posture position presenting a possible abnormal pathology, c. determining Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) parameters for imaging the possible abnormal pathology in greater detail than the x-ray images, d. acquiring at least one series of multiple MRI images at positions and locations with the potential abnormal pathology with said parameters wherein the MRI parameters include obtaining one or more MRI images at the same posture that presented the possible abnormal pathology, wherein the MRI images in the at least one series are of parallel spaced apart planes in the living creature, each spaced apart plane being separated from the most adjacent spaced apart plane by a spacing of not more than 3 mm.