Patent ID: 8299789

Claim:
A method for formalized description of a measurement sequence, said measurement sequence being executable by a magnetic resonance scanner, said method comprising the steps of: formulating a sequence model for a measurement sequence, said sequence model being comprised of blocks selected from the group consisting of a warp block and an X block, and a pause block, and depicting said sequence model as a directed graph comprising at least nodes, edges between said nodes, and properties of said edges for workflow control of the directed graph, said nodes being formed from the group consisting of said X blocks, an entrance point, and an exit point; providing said sequence model to a processor and, in said processor, automatically parameterizing said measurement sequence using said directed graph, except for a predetermined set of parameters that must still be parameterized; and making the measurement sequence, parameterized from said directed graph except for said predetermined set of parameters, available from said processor as an output.