Patent ID: 9335392
Filing Date: 2016-05-10
CPC Classification: G01R

Claim Text:
1. A method to acquire a magnetic resonance image data set of a target volume of an examination subject, comprising: through a computerized controller of a magnetic resonance data acquisition unit, defining a readout direction for acquiring magnetic resonance data from a target volume of an examination subject, and dividing said target volume into a plurality of sub-volumes in a two-dimensional plane that is orthogonal to said readout direction; from said computerized controller, operating said magnetic resonance data acquisition unit to acquire, from each sub-volume, a partial data set by targeted excitation of the respective sub-volume by radiating a first radio-frequency pulse effective in a first direction of said plane and radiating a second radio-frequency pulse effective in a second direction that is orthogonal to said first direction, and detecting magnetic resonance data from the respective sub-volume, in said readout direction, resulting from the targeted excitation of the respective sub-volume; and in a processor, combining the respective partial data sets acquired from the respective sub-volumes to produce a magnetic resonance data set of said target volume, and making said magnetic resonance data set available from said processor in a data file.