Patent ID: 9465093
Filing Date: 2016-10-11
CPC Classification: G01R

Claim Text:
1. A method for generating a magnetic resonance (MR) image of a predetermined volume in a living examination subject, comprising: while a living examination subject is located in an MR data acquisition unit, stimulating the examination subject with a defined stimulation pattern that produces physiological changes in muscle tissue of the examination subject that track said stimulation pattern; operating the data acquisition unit to acquire MR data from a predetermined volume of the examination subject that includes said muscle tissue during stimulation of the examination subject with said defined stimulation pattern; supplying the acquired MR data to a computerized processor and, in said processor, automatically generating an MR image of said predetermined volume, in which said physiological changes are represented, from said acquired MR data, by executing an image generating algorithm dependent on said stimulation pattern in which signal changes within the MR image, which occur due to the physiological changes, are separated from signal changes within the MR image that occur due to a source other than said stimulation pattern; and making said MR image available at an output of the processor in electronic form as a data file.