Patent ID: 8185335

Claim:
A method for spatially-dependent adjustment of system parameters of a magnetic resonance apparatus, comprising the steps of: (a) continuously moving an examination subject through a measurement volume of a magnetic resonance apparatus to cause the examination subject to successively occupy different positions, respectively at different points in time, in the measurement volume; (b) with the examination subject occupying a first of said positions at a first of said points in time, acquiring magnetic resonance data from the examination subject by operating the magnetic resonance apparatus using a system parameter set comprising a plurality of system parameters, each having a system parameter value; (c) contemporaneously with said first of said points in time, storing said system parameter values of the system parameter set in a memory in association with said first of said points in time; (d) in a computerized processor, automatically evaluating the measurement data acquired at said first of said points in time, as to an effect achieved with the use of said system parameter values with the examination subject at said first of said positions; (e) in said processor, automatically adapting said system parameter values to cause, assuming idealized relationships between said system parameters and said effect, said effect to correspond to a target value; (f) continuing to move the examination subject through the measurement volume to cause the examination subject to occupy a next-successive position in said measurement volume at a next-successive point in time, respectively following said first of said positions and said first of said points in time; and (g) repeatedly adapting said system parameter values by repeating steps (b) through (f) for said next-successive position and said next-successive point in time, and a plurality of additional next-successive positions respectively occupied at a plurality of additional next-successive points in time, to allow said processor in step (e), to iteratively adapt said system parameter to cause said effect to correspond said target value, as and until all desired magnetic resonance data in the measurement volume are acquired from the examination subject.