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

Claim 0:
1. A method of magnetic resonance (MR) imaging of a body of a patient placed in an examination volume of a MR device, the method comprising:
subjecting the body to an imaging sequence, which comprises at least one excitation RF pulse and switched magnetic field gradients, wherein a number of pairs of echo signals is generated at two different echo times (TE1, TE2) with different phase encodings to sample a region of k-space, and wherein the generation of each pair of echo signals is repeated during two or more different cardiac phases (AW1, AW2);
acquiring the echo signals from the body;
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.