Patent ID: 8085042

Claim:
A method for automatically determining slice positions in a magnetic resonance (MR) examination in an MR system, comprising the steps of: entering predetermined volume data as an input into a processor representing a predetermined volume from which MR data are to be acquired in an MR examination of a subject; also entering volume segment data as another input into said processor that represent at least one predetermined volume segment, without designation of a slice, of said predetermined volume for said MR examination; in said processor, planning said MR examination of said subject to automatically determine, from only the inputs of said volume data and said volume segment data, respective slice positions of slices in the subject from which said MR data are to be acquired, that cause said at least one volume segment to be completely contained in at least one of said slices; and making a specification of said automatically determined slice positions available as an output from said processor in a form allowing operation of said MR system to acquire said MR data from at least one slice respectively at, at least one of said automatically determined slice positions.