Patent ID: 9569863
Date: 2017-02-14
CPC Classifications: G01R,G06T

Claim:
1. A system for accelerated segmented magnetic resonance (MR) image data acquisition, comprising: an RF (Radio Frequency) signal generator for generating RF excitation pulses in anatomy and enabling subsequent acquisition of associated RF echo data; and a magnetic field gradient generator for generating magnetic field gradients for anatomical volume selection, phase encoding, and readout RF data acquisition in a three dimensional (3D) anatomical volume, wherein said RF signal generator and said magnetic field gradient generator are configured to acquire temporally consecutive segments of k-space line data representative of a first individual image slice in a gradient echo method by adaptively varying an RF excitation pulse flip angle between acquisition of the temporally consecutive segments before acquiring temporally consecutive segments of k-space line data representative of a second individual image slice, and wherein the adaptive variation of the RF excitation pulse flip angles is calculated to provide an equal magnetization across segments.