Three series of scout images, to be used for slice positioning in a MR scan of the brain, are illustrated. The first is a typical scout (1), using 2D FLASH technique, with images acquired, as is common today, in the three orthogonal directions. These three directions (sagittal, coronal, and axial) are respective to the main magnetic field, but not to the anatomy of the patient. Note that the patient is less than perfectly positioned, a common occurrence in clinical practice, with the cause multifactorial. The second series of scout images (2) is acquired using a 3D VIBE scan, with the scan time however no longer than for the acquisition of the three scouts shown in (1), approximately 15 seconds. Illustrated are the images already after the initial iteration in slice positioning by the AutoAlign algorithm. The third series of scout images (3) is the final result from AutoAlign, which is produced automatically without user intervention. The axial images have been correctly chosen to span the brain from the vertex to the skull base, the plane of reference (alignment) has been chosen to be the equivalent of the AC-PC line (anterior commissure to posterior commissure), and the images are orthogonal to the coronal plane. [...]