Patent ID: 8290224

Claim:
A method for imaging at least one cyclically moving object using a first and a second imaging method differing at least with regard to at least one of spatial resolution and sensitivity, the method comprising: continuously recording image data of the object by a magnetic resonance tomography (MR) method; extracting temporally different phases of a movement cycle of the object from the image data recorded by the MR method; simultaneously recording image data of the object by a single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) method or a positron emission tomography (PET) method; assigning the image data recorded by the SPECT or PET method to the extracted temporally different phases of the movement cycle; summing the image data recorded by the SPECT or PET method, wherein the image data summed is, in each case, in a same, repeating phase of the movement cycle; determining a movement vector of an object point of the object between two phases of the movement cycle on the basis of the image data recorded by the MR method; and translating object points of the image data recorded by the SPECT or PET method by use of the movement vector between the two phases, wherein the image data of the MR method are MR data, which are evaluated in k-space.