1. A medical imaging method for joints in living creatures, the method comprising the steps of: a. acquiring a dynamic sequence of x-ray images of at least one joint of a living creature over a range of motion, b. analyzing the dynamic x-ray image frames to identify positions and locations with possible abnormal pathology, c. determining MRI parameters for imaging the possible abnormal pathology in greater detail than the x-ray images, d. acquiring MRI images at positions and locations with abnormal pathology with said parameters.