Patent ID: 7098660

Claim:
A method for diagnostic imaging of a body part, by nuclear magnetic resonance, which method comprises the steps of: positioning the body part in a detection volume of a nuclear magnetic resonance imaging apparatus, inside a dedicated receiving coil; defining the relative position of the receiving coil with respect to the detection volume by time durable and repeatable positioning references; defining the relative position of the body part with respect to the receiving coil by time durable and repeatable positioning references: selecting the section or sections of the body part that is to be imaged and carrying out image detection by nuclear magnetic resonance; identifying and storing the detected images; and carrying out at intervals one or more subsequent image detections with nuclear magnetic resonance of the same body part and of the same section thereof as in the preceding image detections with nuclear magnetic resonance, positioning each time the body part in the same relative position with respect to the imaging volume of the nuclear magnetic resonance imaging apparatus by the repeatable positioning references of the receiving coil relative to the detection volume and by the repeatable positioning references of the body part to the receiving coil.