Patent ID: 8483461

Claim:
A diagnostic imaging system comprising: a network; a plurality of scanners connected to the network, each comprising imaging region, an acquisition system for generating raw images representative of an object disposed in the imaging region and a reconstruction unit for reconstructing an image representation from the raw images; and a reconstruction server connected to the network for distributing subsets of the raw images from the data acquisition systems of any of the plurality of scanners to the reconstruction units of any of the plurality of scanners for parallel processing of images wherein each of the plurality of scanner's further comprises a host computer for controlling the acquisition system and the reconstruction unit, and wherein the host computer of each of the plurality of scanners is arranged to perform at least one of: decomposing the raw image generated by the acquisition system into subsets; sending at least one of the subsets via the network to another of the plurality of scanners; recombining the subsets processed in parallel by the reconstruction unit into an image representation of the object.