Patent ID: 7317940

Claim:
A method for automatically determining a speed of a flowing medium in a magnetic resonance tomography flow measurement, comprising the steps of: acquiring an overview magnetic resonance image of a selected area of a living subject; displaying said overview image on a screen; performing a scout flow measurement by acquiring a magnetic resonance image series of said subject during a motion cycle of said subject at a predetermined speed interval in a tissue area within said overview image, said tissue area containing a flowing medium; from said scout flow measurement, automatically determining a peak speed of said flowing medium in said tissue area; performing an optimized flow measurement by acquiring respective images, corresponding to selected images in said image series, dependent on said peak speed; and generating and displaying on said screen a speed-resolved image including said tissue area using said peak speed to set a grey scale range in said speed-resolved image, obtained by said optimized flow measurement in a display format selected from the group consisting of a speed-resolved image of said tissue area encompassing an average speed of said flowing medium and a speed resolved image of said tissue area together with a generated speed profile of said flowing medium in said tissue area.