Patent ID: 8447381

Claim:
A method for controlling a contrast agent injector in a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus, comprising the steps of: providing a communication path between a contrast agent injector, connected to a magnetic resonance scanner, and a control panel of the magnetic resonance imaging scanner; displaying a user interface for said contrast agent injector at said control panel of said magnetic resonance scanner; via said user interface, configuring operating parameters for said contrast agent injector to produce preliminary operating parameters for said contrast agent injector; storing information in a database that is relevant to treatment of a specific patient with contrast agent; from said user interface, accessing said information from said database and displaying said information at said user interface at said control panel; in a processor connected to said control panel, automatically evaluating, dependent on said information, said preliminary operating parameters for said contrast agent injector; when evaluation in said processor of said operating parameters dependent on said information indicates the preliminary operating parameters are not appropriate for said specific patient, automatically generating, from said processor, a warning at said user interface and, in said processor, automatically generating final operating parameters for said contrast agent injector from said preliminary operating parameters; and controlling operation of said contrast agent injector according to said final operating parameters.