Patent ID: 7782052
Filing Date: 2010-08-24
Classification: G01R

Abstract:
1. A method for determining a measurement workflow of a magnetic resonance tomography apparatus in the generation of slice images of a subject, comprising the steps of: establishing a number of slice images to be generated; establishing a total number of measurement regions for each of the slice images, with one measurement being necessary for acquisition of data for each of said measurement regions; in a processor supplied with said number of slice images and said number of measurement regions, automatically determining a measurement sequence for each of said slice images, each measurement sequence comprising an excitation and a predetermined number of successive data acquisitions from different ones of said measurement regions of that slice image, with a plurality of measurement sequences being necessary for acquiring said data for all measurement regions of that slice image, said data acquired for all measurement regions of each slice image collectively forming a slice image data set for that slice; in said processor, processing all of the slice image data sets in a predetermined number of data streams; in said processor, automatically determining a distribution of the slice image data sets respectively assigned to said predetermined number of data streams and in said processor, automatically establishing an order in which all of the respective data acquisitions for each slice image will occur, which is dependent on said distribution of said image data sets in said predetermined number of data streams, that minimizes a total time of acquiring said data for all of said measurement regions of all of said slice, and emitting a control signal from an output of the processor in a form that controls the magnetic resonance tomography apparatus which then implements said data acquisitions in said order.