Patent ID: 7834625
Filing Date: 2010-11-16
Classification: G01R

Abstract:
1. An MRI to form an image of a patient comprising: at least one emitting coil which produces gradients; a controller in communication with the emitting coil for obtaining a steady-state image of the patient, where gradient areas balance to zero for each time repetition (TR) interval, the controller causes the gradients to target three specific asymmetric regions in K space during each TR interval, where at least two of the regions overlap in K space and at least one region of K space is not imaged with the gradients during a given TR interval; and at least one receiving coil in communication with the controller which receives an echo signal of the three specific asymmetric regions and provides the echo signal gradients to the controller for the controller to obtain the image, where data corresponding to the regions which overlap are time shifted such that corresponding k-space regions are removed from at least one data set and a series of data sets corresponding to each k-space region are inserted into a composite matrix without overlapping.