Patent Document ID: 9730631
Application ID: 14063999
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A medical imaging method for a human being's cervical spine, the method comprising the steps of: a. disposing the human being in an upright posture on an Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) instrument, b. acquiring a first MRI image of the cervical spine with parameters comprising: i. a sagital view of the cervical spine that includes 2 or more cervical vertebrae with the human being in a first posture, c. acquiring a plurality of MRI images of parallel spaced apart planes of at least a portion of the cervical spine shown in the first MRI image with the parameters comprising: i. the patient remains in the first posture, ii. at least one of axial and coronal images in which each spaced apart plane is separated from the most adjacent spaced apart plane by a spacing of not more than 3 mm.