Patent ID: 8548122

Claim:
A method, comprising: obtaining a localizer scan of a patient; identifying first and second different anatomical volumes of the patient from the localizer scan; planning a signal scan covering the identified volumes using a first imaging protocol and a second different imaging protocol for each of the identified volumes, wherein each protocol is unique to anatomy of interest in the different anatomical volumes; obtaining, during the single scan, a single volumetric image data set that includes a plurality of images, wherein projection data reconstructed to generate the volumetric image data was generated by an imaging system operated to perform first and second different subscans of the patient during the single scan of the patient, wherein the first and second different subscans respectively are based on the first and the second different imaging protocols and cover the first and the second different volumes of a patient with respect to a long axis of the patient, and wherein a first subset of the plurality of the images includes data representative of the first volume of the patient and a second different subset of the images includes data representative of the second volume of the patient; obtaining the first imaging protocol; obtaining the second imaging protocol; using the first imaging protocol and the volumetric image data to generate a first set of images for the first volume of the patient with the first subset of the plurality of the images, wherein the first set of images is indicative of a first interior anatomy of the patient in the first volume of the patient; using the second imaging protocol and the volumetric image data to generate a second different set of images for the second volume of the patient with the second subset of the plurality of the images, wherein the second different set of images includes images indicative of a second interior anatomy of the patient in the second volume of the patient; and storing the first set of images with a first unique identifier and the second set of images with a second unique identifier in a computer readable storage medium.