1. A method of multi-phase cardiac imaging comprising the steps of: acquiring views of image data for a number of prescribed phases for a number of imaging locations of a field-of-view (FOV) over a series of cardiac cycles of a subject; assessing operational parameters of an image reconstruction system; and selecting, based on the operational parameters, one of: a phase location driven reconstruction process that reconstructs images from views for all the number of imaging locations for one phase before reconstructing images for another phase; and an image location driven reconstruction process that reconstructs images from views for all the prescribed phases for one imaging location before reconstructing images for another imaging location.