Patent ID: 6992485

Claim:
A method for determining an acceleration factor for a direction of magnetic resonance data acquisition in a parallel image acquisition comprising the steps of: from multiple coil units, respectively emitting output signals for parallel image acquisition; assigning an acceleration contribution for at least one magnetic resonance data acquisition direction to each coil unit dependent on a sensitive volume of that coil unit; designating relevant coil units, among said multiple coil units, which, dependent on an arrangement of the respective sensitive volumes of said relevant coil units in relation to a measurement volume, contribute to acceleration of data acquisition in said parallel image acquisition; specifying said direction of data acquisition in said measurement volume; and automatically electronically determining an acceleration factor in said direction of data acquisition from the respective acceleration contributions of said relevant coil units, depending on the respective positions of said relevant coil units relative to one another and relative to said measurement volume and to said direction of data acquisition.