Patent ID: 8000510

Claim:
A method to control a slice image acquisition system, comprising the steps of: for an examination subject who is to undergo a scan in a slice image acquisition system, automatically importing into a processor information associated with said examination subject that is relevant to said scan; from said processor, accessing a plurality of electronically stored scan protocols, each of said scan protocols comprising protocol-specific parameters that serve to control implementation of a scan by said slice image acquisition system; in said processor, automatically matching said previously-acquired information with information describing the respective protocol-specific parameters of the respective electronically stored protocols; and in said processor, automatically selecting a scan protocol, from among said plurality of electronically stored scan protocols, that has protocol-specific parameters that, as a result of said matching, exhibit a highest compatibility with said information according to a predetermined rule that is stored in and used by said processor, and making the automatically selected scan protocol available at an output of the processor for implementing scan of said examination subject with said slice image acquisition system.