Patent ID: 8271067

Claim:
A method of MR imaging for a bilateral breast scan comprising the steps of: acquiring a localizer image of a volume-of-interest from a scanning of a localizer series; displaying the localizer image; displaying a number of pre-scan volumes overlaid on the localizer image, each pre-scan volume corresponding to a shimming region for which shim values are to be determined; positioning the pre-scan volumes at desired locations on the localizer image in response to user input; performing a multiple pass pre-scan session to set one or more scan parameters for data acquisition of the number of pre-scan volumes, the one or more scan parameters including a shim value for each of the number of pre-scan volumes; acquiring MR data from the number of pre-scan volumes; and reconstructing an image from the MR data wherein the desired locations correspond to a first breast and a second breast such that one pre-scan volume includes the first breast and another pre-scan volume includes the second breast, and wherein the step of acquiring MR data includes the step of executing a bilateral breast series of data acquisition.