Method to acquire measurement data of a breathing examination subject by magnetic resonance technology, and associated computer program

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium encoded with programming instructions, said storage medium being loaded into a computerized operating and evaluation system of a magnetic resonance apparatus, and said programming instructions causing said computerized operating and evaluation system to:

• (a) detect a physiological breathing signal of an examination subject using a breathing signal detection unit, to obtain a detected breathing signal;
• (b) evaluate the detected breathing signal to obtain an evaluation result;
• (c) calculate, based on said evaluation result, at least one parameter for operating a magnetic resonance data acquisition unit that has an effect on acquisition of magnetic resonance data from the examination subject by the magnetic resonance data acquisition unit;
• (d) detect a current physiological breathing signal from the examination subject with said breathing signal detection unit;
• (e) compare the most recent physiological breathing signals that were detected with said breathing signal detection unit with at least one trigger condition, to obtain a comparison result;
• (f) automatically initiate acquisition of said magnetic resonance data from the examination subject by said magnetic resonance data acquisition unit using said at least one parameter calculated in step (c), upon said comparison result indicating satisfaction of said at least one trigger condition by said most recent physiological breathing signals;
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• (g) repeat steps (d) through (f) until all desired magnetic resonance data have been acquired.