Patent ID: 7180289
Filing Date: 2007-02-20
Classification: G01R

Abstract:
1. A magnetic resonance imaging method for forming an image of an object from a plurality of signals acquired by an array of multiple receiver antennae, comprising: exciting spins in a part of the object, selecting slices within a predetermined rectangular Field-of-View having a Cartesian coordinate system for scanning the object, scanning said selected slices in an oblique relationship with respect to the cartesian coordinate system of said Field-of-View, such that a center of each of the oblique slice lies along a longitudinal axis of the Cartesian coordinate system of the Field-of-View and such that edges of the oblique slices are contained in the Field-of-View, measuring MR signals along a predetermined trajectory containing a plurality of lines in said slices in k-space by application of a read gradient and other gradients.