Patent ID: 8400150

Claim:
A method for controlling a magnetic resonance system, comprising: in order to execute a data acquisition procedure to acquire magnetic resonance data from a subject in a magnetic resonance data acquisition unit from a control unit connected to the magnetic resonance data acquisition unit, entering, via a user interface in communication with said control unit, at least one operating protocol that defines a plurality of successive protocol steps that forms said data acquisition procedure; in said at least one operating protocol, including at least one operator interaction step that is then built into said at least one operating protocol to occur at a predetermined time, among said plurality of successive protocol steps, during execution of said data acquisition procedure; beginning execution of said data acquisition procedure from said control unit by operating the magnetic resonance data acquisition unit according to said operating protocol; when said operator interaction step occurs in said operating protocol, interrupting said execution of said data acquisition protocol and displaying, at said user interface, at least one operator interaction field allowing an operator to make an entry in said operator interaction field that affects subsequent protocol steps in said operating protocol; and after said operator makes said entry in said operator interaction step, controlling protocol steps in said operating protocol, that occur subsequent to said operator interaction step, from said control unit dependent on said entry.