description with reference to fig1 a patient or subject is received in an examination region 10 magnets and magnetic flux stabilizers a generate a magnetic flux in the examination region 10 and compensate for drifts of the magnetic field the flux stabilizers a create and stabilize a magnetic field through the examination region magnetic resonance electronics b selectively induce magnetic resonance of dipoles in the gap to generate resonance signals from which an image or other diagnostic information is created a gradient field coil 20 is selectively driven by gradient amplifiers 22 to generate linear magnetic field gradients across the examination region 10 preferably along three mutually orthogonal axes a radio frequency coil 24 is connected with a digital transmitter 26 for selectively generating radio frequency signals for inducing and manipulating magnetic resonance in dipoles of the subject which are selectively aligned with the b 0 field the radio frequency coil 24 is also connected with a receiver 28 for receiving and demodulating received magnetic resonance signals the gradient amplifiers 22 and digital transmitter 26 are controlled by a sequence controller 29 optionally the gradient magnetic field coils and or the radio frequency coils can be mounted in a smaller coil 30 designed to receive a selected portion of the subject being imaged the received magnetic resonance signals are digitized and processed by a reconstruction process 32 to generate a magnetic resonance image representation for storage in an image memory 34 a video processor 36 under control of an operator retrieves selected portions of.