Patent ID: 8620403

Claim:
A method for acquiring magnetic resonance (MR) slice images of an examination subject, comprising the steps of: providing a computerized processor with an overview MR image exposure of an examination subject in a coordinate system of an MR data acquisition unit with which the overview MR image exposure was acquired, said MR data acquisition unit generating a magnetic field that is sufficiently homogenous to acquire diagnostic MR data only within a known homogeneity volume of the MR data acquisition unit; in said processor, from said overview MR image exposure, automatically determining a volume in said coordinate system of the subject and, dependent on said volume, automatically determining at least one stack-defining image acquisition parameter that defines a slice image stack, consisting of multiple individual slice images, respectively representing multiple slices of the examination subject, that causes all of the slices respectively represented by said slice images in said slice image stack to be situated in respectively different planes that are within said homogeneity volume of said MR data acquisition unit, said stack-defining parameter being selected from the group consisting of, for said individual multiple slices, a slice thickness, a slice interval, and a slice count; and from said processor, controlling operation of said MR data acquisition unit according to said stack-defining parameter to acquire MR data in said coordinate system for said slice images in said slice image stack according to an MR data acquisition parameter set that includes said stack-defining parameter, with all of said slices being situated in said respectively different planes in said homogeneity volume of said MR data acquisition unit.