The invention relates to a method to measure characteristic structure sizes of the human brain, which structure sizes can be used as biomarkers for a diagnosis of Alzheimer's, using a magnetic resonance device (17). The method comprises the following steps of a) manual and/or automatic localization of the hippocampus takes place in a preliminary magnetic resonance acquisition; b) particularly, at least one measurement axis (4, 4a-4g) that proceeds through the hippocampus is automatically selected; c) for each selected measurement axis (4, 4a-4g), magnetic resonance data are acquired for a longitudinal, in particular rod-shaped, acquisition region proceeding along the measurement axis; and d) determination of the spatially resolved structure sizes is implemented from the magnetic resonance data.
Method to measure structures of human brain