Just hold your breath for a few minutes - if it were that easy. People need to breathe in order to live. This vital reflex becomes a problem with magnetic resonance scans: With this relatively slow recording technique, movement - including the breathing process - leads to blurred areas in the images. But a remedy has been found: Inventor Alto Stemmer (46) from Siemens Healthcare in Erlagen has developed software that synchronizes the rhythm of the recording time with that of the breath, thus significantly improving the image quality of images of the chest.