Patent ID: 8543191

Claim:
A method for acquiring magnetic resonance measurement data from a breathing examination subject, comprising the steps of: (a) detecting a physiological breathing signal of an examination subject using a breathing signal detection unit, to obtain a detected breathing signal; (b) in a computerized evaluation unit, automatically evaluating the detected breathing signal to obtain an evaluation result; (c) in a computerized processor, automatically calculating, based on said evaluation result, at least one parameter for operating a magnetic resonance data acquisition unit that has an effect on acquisition of magnetic resonance data from the examination subject by the magnetic resonance data acquisition unit; (d) detecting a current physiological breathing signal from the examination subject with said breathing signal detection unit; (e) in a computerized comparison unit, comparing the last physiological breathing signals that were detected with said breathing signal detection unit with at least one trigger condition, to obtain a comparison result; (f) from said comparison unit, automatically initiating acquisition of said magnetic resonance data from the examination subject by said magnetic resonance data acquisition unit using said at least one parameter calculated in step (c), upon said comparison result indicating satisfaction of said at least one trigger condition by said last physiological breathing signals; and (g) repeating steps (d) through (f) until all desired magnetic resonance data have been acquired.