Patent ID: 8604786

Claim:
A method to control acquisition of magnetic resonance data in a magnetic resonance system, comprising the steps of: storing procedure parameters that define a sliding multi-slice (SMS) data acquisition procedure having data acquisition requirements that must be satisfied when acquiring magnetic resonance data with said SMS data acquisition procedure; from said computerized control unit, operating a magnetic resonance data acquisition unit to acquire magnetic resonance data from a predetermined volume segment of an examination subject according to said SMS data acquisition procedure by executing a plurality of repetitions of said SMS data acquisition procedure and, in each repetition, exciting nuclear spins in, and reading resulting magnetic resonance signals from, a number of slices in said predetermined volume segment while continuously longitudinally moving the examination subject on a patient table in a longitudinal direction through said data acquisition unit; and exclusively in said computerized control unit, automatically determining said number of slices, in which nuclear spins are excited and from which resulting magnetic resonance signals are read in each repetition, from at least one of said procedure parameters, in order to satisfy said data acquisition requirements of said SMS data acquisition procedure, with no manual designation of said number of slices to said computerized control unit, by entering the magnetic resonance data read from each slice into a number, of k-space segments, that is at least two k-space segments, and comprising, in said computerized control unit, automatically determining said number of slices dependent on the number of k-space segments per slice.