Patent ID: 6882151

Claim:
A processing system for a magnetic resonance tomography apparatus, said magnetic resonance tomography apparatus having a gradient coil system that generates magnetic gradients exhibiting non-linearities, said processing system comprising: a display screen; a processor connected to said display screen, said processor generating a user interface on said display screen allowing graphic scan planning based on a previously-obtained MRT overview image of a subject that was obtained using said gradient coil system and thus exhibits a distortion due to said non-linearities, said distortion in said overview image being corrected by said processor, using stored data accessible by said processor representing said non-linearities, to correct distortions in said overview image due to said non-linearities, thereby producing and displaying a corrected overview image; and said processor, in said user interface, graphically demarcating an area of said corrected overview image in which positioning of an additional, planned slice of the subject, from which MR data are to be acquired, will result, due to the distortion correction in said corrected overview image, result in said data being acquired from an actual slice of the subject that deviates from said planned slice, from an area of the corrected overview image in which positioning of said additional, planned, slice will not cause said planned slice to deviate from said actual slice.