Patent Document ID: 5584293
Application ID: 08515786
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method of producing magnetic resonance (MR) images of a subject in an interactive fashion, comprising the steps of: a) selecting imaging parameters comprising a location, orientation, and field of view of a plane of said subject in which an image is desired to be acquired; b) acquiring an MR image of said subject at the selected imaging parameters; c) displaying the acquired MR image on a display screen; d) creating an image icon from the MR image; e) storing the image icon along with the imaging parameters used to acquire the MR image; f) repeating steps (a)-(e) for a plurality of MR images; g) displaying at least one image icon on the display screen; h) selecting one of the displayed image icons; i) employing the stored imaging parameters corresponding to the selected image icon to acquire a new MR image.