1. A method for acquiring a medical imaging study using a medical imaging device, comprising: acquiring one or more preliminary images; generating a body mask by performing inhomogeneity correction, thresholding the preliminary images into a binary image, and identifying a largest connected component, wherein a connected component is defined as a contiguous set of pixels of the binary image having a value of one, wherein respective size of connected components is determined by area; defining a boundary mask as the boundary of the identified largest connected component of the generated body mask; fitting a rectangular bounding box to the defined boundary mask; setting the rectangular bounding box as a field of view for the medical imaging device; and performing a medical imaging study using the medical aging device set to use the rectangular bounding box as the field of view.