Patent Document ID: 20150164330
Application ID: 14107895
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method of medical imaging comprising: acquiring image data of a periodically moving structure over more than a single physiological cycle, the image data comprising a plurality of images; associating phase information from the physiological cycle with the image data; identifying a base image sequence from the image data based on the phase information, the base image sequence corresponding to an integral number of cycles; identifying at least one non-base image in the data acquired from outside the base image sequence; generating a blended image sequence from the base image sequence and the at least one non-base image; wherein the blended image sequence corresponds to the integral number of physiological cycles, and wherein the blended image sequence exhibits at least one of a reduced phase discontinuity and a reduced spatial discontinuity when displayed as a blended cine loop compared to a non-blended cine loop based on only the base image sequence; and displaying the blended image sequence as a blended cine loop on a display device.