Patent ID: 11940517
Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 9:
10. A computer program to be run on a magnetic resonance (MR) device, which computer program comprises instructions for:
executing an imaging sequence, which comprises at least one excitation RF pulse and switched magnetic field gradients so as to generate a number of pairs of echo signals at two different echo times (TE1, TE2) with different phase encodings to sample a region of k-space, with the generation of each pair of echo signals being repeated during two or more different cardiac phases (AW1, AW2);
acquiring the echo signals;
reconstructing phase images from the acquired echo signal data, wherein a phase image is reconstructed for each echo time and for each cardiac phase; and
reconstructing a final diagnostic image from the echo signal data using water/fat separation, wherein regions of at least one of flow or estimates of flow-induced phase errors are derived from the phase images to suppress or compensate for flow-induced leakage and/or swapping artifacts in the final diagnostic image.