Patent ID: 9297871
Filing Date: 2016-03-29
CPC Classification: G01R,G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method to generate a magnetic resonance (MR) image of an examination subject, comprising: providing a processor with information representing a spatial sensitivity of a receiver coil element of a receiver coil array, comprising a plurality of receiver coil elements, in an MR data acquisition scanner that will be used to acquire MR data from an examination subject, from which MR data an MR image of the examination subject will be generated; in said processor, automatically generating a mask for each receiver coil element of said receiver coil array dependent on said spatial sensitivity of that respective receiver coil element, in order to mask a region of said MR image using said mask, said region being a region of said MR image in which that respective receiver coil element has at least one predetermined sensitivity; from said processor, operating said MR data acquisition scanner to generate at least one RF excitation pulse and at least one magnetic field gradient in order to acquire said MR data from the examination subject with each receiver coil element of said receiver coil array; in said processor, generating, for each receiver coil element, a preliminary MR image using only the MR data acquired with that respective receiver coil element; in said processor, applying, for each receiver coil element, said mask to the preliminary MR image for that respective receiver coil element in order to generate an MR image for that respective receiver coil element; and in said processor, generating said MR image of the examination subject by assembling said MR images generated for the respective receiver coil elements, and making said MR image available as a data file at an output of said processor.