Patent ID: 6023635
Filing Date: 2000-02-08
Classification: G01R

Abstract:
A magnetic resonance imaging method including generating a magnetic field in an examination region, inducting dipoles in the examination region to resonate generating radio frequency resonance signals, applying at least slab select, phase encode, and read magnetic field gradients along orthogonal directions across the examination region, and further including:a) exciting the resonance in a first selected slab in the examination region;b) inducing resonance and applying magnetic field gradients of a three dimensional magnetic resonance imaging sequence until 1/Nth of a set of volume data is acquired, where N is an integer;c) repeating steps (a) and (b) with the slab shifted by 1/Nth of a slab dimension;d) repeating steps (a)-(c) N times;e) reconstructing a slice image from the set of volume data;f) projecting the slice image as a line of a projection image;g) repeating steps (a)-(f) to generate additional lines of the projection image.