A method is disclosed for controlling an MR device. A control unit and an imaging device with a control unit are also disclosed. An embodiment of the method serves to transfer an interim result which is calculated by an automatic alignment algorithm which is provided in an image processing module, to a localizer image. An optimized result can then be converted into instructions which serve to control the MR device and are based on the localizer image which has been captured in a different recording technique than the images with which the automatic alignment algorithm has been trained.
