Patent ID: 8085043
Filing Date: 2011-12-27
Classification: G01R

Abstract:
1. A method for acquiring magnetic resonance image data from a region of interest of a subject in a magnetic resonance data acquisition device comprising, to establish a field of view from which said magnetic resonance image data will be obtained, the steps of: from a plurality of previously-acquired localizer magnetic resonance exposures of the subject that contain aliasing, automatically extracting aliasing information from each MR exposure selected from the group consisting of a minimal geometric shape encompassing the subject in each of said exposures and a boundary surface of the subject in each of said exposures; determining at least one slice plane from which diagnostic magnetic resonance image data will be acquired according to a measurement protocol; and in a processor, for each determined slice plane, determining at least one of a phase coding direction and an extent of the field of view in the phase coding direction using said extracted aliasing information; and supplying an electronic representation with respect to the determined phase coding direction or the extent of the filed of view, as an output from said processor, in a form for inclusion in said measurement protocol, in order to operate the magnetic resonance data acquisition device and acquire diagnostic magnetic resonance data.