Method for determining an imaging quality information for a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus in an examination process of a patient positioned at least partly within an imaging volume of the magnetic resonance imaging apparatus, wherein the imaging quality information is used for assessing the performance of the magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and/or for determining imaging parameters for an imaging protocol, comprising the following steps: - measuring a noise information describing the general noise properties of the magnetic resonance imaging apparatus in the imaging volume using a predetermined first magnetic resonance sequence, - acquiring patient image data in at least one imaging region of the patient using a predetermined second magnetic resonance sequence, wherein a magnetic resonance sequence which is independent of the individual patient, meaning that no parameters of the sequence are adapted to the patient, is used as the second magnetic resonance sequence, - localizing at least one anatomical landmark of a group of predetermined anatomical landmarks in the patient image by a landmark detection algorithm, wherein for each landmark and/or for at least one pair of landmarks, a reference information regarding the imaging quality information is provided in a database , - determining a landmark-specific signal-to-noise ratio for each localized landmark from the patient image data at the landmark and the noise information, and - determining the imaging quality information from the landmark-specific signal-to-noise ratio, wherein the assessment of the performance of the magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and/or the determination of the imaging parameters is performed depending on a comparison of the imaging quality information and the corresponding reference information in the database. - measuring a noise information describing the general noise properties of the magnetic resonance imaging apparatus in the imaging volume using a predetermined first magnetic resonance sequence, - acquiring patient image data in at least one imaging region of the patient using a predetermined second magnetic resonance sequence, wherein a magnetic resonance sequence which is independent of the individual patient, meaning that no parameters of the sequence are adapted to the patient, is used as the second magnetic resonance sequence, - localizing at least one anatomical landmark of a group of predetermined anatomical landmarks in the patient image by a landmark detection algorithm, wherein for each landmark and/or for at least one pair of landmarks, a reference information regarding the imaging quality information is provided in a database , - determining a landmark-specific signal-to-noise ratio for each localized landmark from the patient image data at the landmark and the noise information, and - determining the imaging quality information from the landmark-specific signal-to-noise ratio, wherein the assessment of the performance of the magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and/or the determination of the imaging parameters is performed depending on a comparison of the imaging quality information and the corresponding reference information in the database. <EOS>