Patent Document ID: 20160073975
Application ID: 14488769
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. An imaging system comprising: a gantry having a bore therethrough; a bed that is translatable between a first axial position and a second axial position along an axis of the bore of the rotating gantry, the bed configured to support an object to be imaged; plural nuclear medicine (NM) imaging detectors disposed about the bore of the gantry, the NM imaging detectors having an axial field of view; and a processing unit operably coupled to the imaging detectors, the processing unit configured to: acquire first NM imaging information of the object from the imaging detectors with the imaging detectors in the first axial position; iteratively actuate the gantry in a series of steps between the first axial position and the second axial position; acquire additional NM imaging information of the object at each of the steps; and reconstruct an image of the object using the first NM imaging information and the additional NM imaging information, wherein the image corresponds to an axial field of view that is larger than the axial field of view of the imaging detectors.