Method for operating a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus ensuring coincidence of images obtained in different examinations with respectively different positions of a subject

US6556008B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventor

• Stefan Thesen · Dormitz, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 14, 2001
• Grant date: Apr 29, 2003
• Expiry date: Jun 14, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01R33/56509
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

In a method for the operation of a magnetic resonance apparatus, in a first examination of an examination subject, a first scout dataset of the examination subject is produced and with reference to which at least one first slice of an examination subject to be imaged is determined. A further scout dataset of the examination subject is produced in at least one further examination of the examination subject temporally following the first examination. A change in position between the first and the further scout dataset is identified, and at least one further slice of the examination subject to be imaged is defined according to the identified positional change, this at least one further slice exhibiting an identical positioning within the examination subject with respect to the first slice.