Patent ID: 8299790
Filing Date: 2012-10-30
Classification: G01R

Abstract:
1. A magnetic resonance method for imaging a volume segment of a subject, comprising the steps of: with a magnetic resonance data acquisition unit that interacts with a subject, imposing a magnetization in a volume segment of the subject and transforming a slice of the volume segment into a dynamic steady state relative to said magnetization; after transforming said slice, acquiring magnetic resonance data from the volume segment in a plurality of repetitions and, in each repetition, exciting nuclear spins in the slice to cause said nuclear spins to emit magnetic resonance signals, reading out said magnetic resonance signals from said slice and offsetting said slice with an overlap with respect to a preceding repetition, with an overlap range comprising a predetermined percentile of said slice before offsetting said slice and after offsetting said slice; and repeating said repetitions until magnetic resonance data has been completely acquired from all of said volume segment.