Patent ID: 7977945

Claim:
A magnetic resonance system comprising: a plurality of components including at least a basic magnetic field generation unit, a gradient coil system, and a radio-frequency coil arrangement; a control computer; a plurality of digital modules and at least one analog module physically and electrically associated with one of said digital modules, said plurality of digital modules and said at least one analog module being external to said control computer; said control computer, said plurality of digital modules and said at least one analog module being configured to operate said plurality of components to acquire magnetic resonance data from an examination subject; each of said digital modules having a digital module peripheral component interface, and said control computer, for each of said digital module peripheral component interfaces, having an associated control computer peripheral component interface; a synchronous first network placing said digital modules in communication with said control computer to synchronize said digital modules; a second network selected from the group consisting of isosynchronous networks and semi-isosynchronous networks, that places said digital modules in communication with each other; and a third network consisting of optical paths that place the respective digital module peripheral component interfaces in communication with the associated control computer peripheral component interfaces.