Systems, Assemblies, Computer Readable Media and Methods for Medical Imaging

A system for medical imaging, the system comprising:

• a first imaging plate for acquiring a first medical image;
• a second imaging plate for acquiring a second medical image;
• a container configured to receive and hold the first imaging plate and the second imaging plate in an overlapping orientation;
• an image reader that converts the first medical image and the second medical image to a first digital medical image and a second digital medical image;
• and
• a processor that receives the first and second digital medical images and creates a composite image of the first and second digital images.

A method of acquiring a medical image, the method comprising:

• securing a lower imaging plate with an upper imaging plate in an overlapping orientation;
• applying radiation to the upper and lower imaging plates;
• reading a lower image from the lower plate;
• reading an upper image from the upper plate;
• identifying a border of an overlapped region of the lower image;
• aligning the lower image and the upper image by matching the border of the overlapped region of the lower image with an overlapped region of the upper image;
• and
• creating a composite medical image by combining the aligned lower image and upper image.

A computer readable medium programmed with computer readable code that upon execution by a processor, causes the processor to:

• acquire a first image and a second image;
• orient the first image and the second image in a general alignment;
• identify a lower image from the first medical image and the second medical image;
• identify a border of an overlapped region of the lower image;
• rotate the lower image to align the border of the overlapped region;
• match the lower image with the upper image by spatial shifting the upper image over the lower image to maximize a correlation between the overlapped region of the lower image and an overlapped region of the upper image;
• and
• combine the upper image and the lower image into a composite image.