An automated computer-implemented method for reorienting ECT myocardial
perfusion images of a heart LV. The method includes receiving variously
oriented tomographic images; receiving LV long-axis, LV center and LV
axial limits based on the images; receiving the endocardial surface of
the LV based on the images; determining a reorientation slice range based
on the center and axial limits of the LV; receiving slices (N) within the
reorientation slice range; for each slice, determining a center
coordinate x[i], y[i] based on the endocardial surface and the area of
the slice within a reorientation slice range coordinate system;
determining translation .DELTA.x.sub.i, .DELTA.y.sub.i and rotation
.theta..sub.x, .theta..sub.y values based on center coordinates x[i=1 to
N], y[i=1 to N] to reorient the LV long axis to the z-axis and its origin
of a reference Cartesian coordinate system; and automatically reorienting
and realigning the tomographic images based on the translation and
rotation values.