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1. A method for automated magnetic resonance (MR) imaging of a patient, comprising:
providing a processor with an MR overview image that represents a patient who is to be subsequently examined in a scan using an MR data acquisition unit having an imaging volume; in said processor, designating, within said MR overview image, a plurality of respectively different scanning ranges respectively for acquiring MR partial images from the patient in the subsequent scan, that each comprise respectively different anatomic regions of the patient, each of said scanning ranges having a length along a selected direction that is dependent on the anatomic region thereof and at least two of said lengths being different from each other; in said processor, identifying a longest scanning range, among said plurality of scanning ranges, that has a longest length along said selected direction, and defining said longest length of said longest scanning range as a maximum length; in said processor, executing a check to determine whether the longest length of the longest scanning range exceeds a length of said imaging volume of said data acquisition unit in said selected direction; in said processor, the length along said selected direction of each of said scanning regions to be equal to said maximum length only if said check determines that said maximum length does not exceed the length of said imaging volume in said selection direction; positioning the patient in said MR data acquisition unit along said selected direction and operating said MR data acquisition unit to acquire the respective MR partial images, that respectively represent the anatomic regions within the respective scanning ranges extended to said maximum length; and in said processor, composing an overall MR image of the patient by combining said MR partial images, and making said overall MR image available at an output of the processor in electronic form, as a data file. |
