Method for producing respiration-corrected MR images of an examination volume of an examined person while respiratory movement of the examined person is present, wherein the examination volume contains the heart, comprising the following steps: - continuously recording MR signals of the examination volume during a plurality of cardiac cycles, wherein a cardiac cycle comprises a plurality of time segments (24, 25, 26), wherein each cardiac phase has a plurality of time segments, wherein the continuous recording includes a recording of one 2D navigator image data record per cardiac cycle during a time segment (24, 25, 26) of the cardiac cycle, as part of which the examination volume is excited and a raw data space in a Cartesian recording model is filled with MR signals in such a way that a spatial resolution is achieved in two of three spatial directions of the examination volume, wherein, in a first cardiac cycle of the plurality of cardiac cycles, the recording of the 2D navigator image data record is achieved in a first time segment of a cardiac phase and, in a second cardiac cycle of the plurality of cardiac cycles, the recording of the 2D navigator image data record is achieved in a second time segment of the same cardiac phase, wherein the first time segment is different from the second time segment, wherein the continuous recording includes a recording of a plurality of 3D image data records in the other time segments of the cardiac cycle, wherein as part of the recording of said image data records a raw data space in a Cartesian recording model is filled with MR signals in such a way that a spatial resolution is achieved in all three spatial directions of the examination volume, - determining the respiratory movement on the basis of the navigator image data records which were recorded in the plurality of cardiac cycles, - correcting the determined respiratory movement in the recorded MR signals in order to produce the respiration-corrected MR images. - continuously recording MR signals of the examination volume during a plurality of cardiac cycles, wherein a cardiac cycle comprises a plurality of time segments (24, 25, 26), wherein each cardiac phase has a plurality of time segments, wherein the continuous recording includes a recording of one 2D navigator image data record per cardiac cycle during a time segment (24, 25, 26) of the cardiac cycle, as part of which the examination volume is excited and a raw data space in a Cartesian recording model is filled with MR signals in such a way that a spatial resolution is achieved in two of three spatial directions of the examination volume, wherein, in a first cardiac cycle of the plurality of cardiac cycles, the recording of the 2D navigator image data record is achieved in a first time segment of a cardiac phase and, in a second cardiac cycle of the plurality of cardiac cycles, the recording of the 2D navigator image data record is achieved in a second time segment of the same cardiac phase, wherein the first time segment is different from the second time segment, wherein the continuous recording includes a recording of a plurality of 3D image data records in the other time segments of the cardiac cycle, wherein as part of the recording of said image data records a raw data space in a Cartesian recording model is filled with MR signals in such a way that a spatial resolution is achieved in all three spatial directions of the examination volume, wherein the continuous recording includes a recording of one 2D navigator image data record per cardiac cycle during a time segment (24, 25, 26) of the cardiac cycle, as part of which the examination volume is excited and a raw data space in a Cartesian recording model is filled with MR signals in such a way that a spatial resolution is achieved in two of three spatial directions of the examination volume, wherein, in a first cardiac cycle of the plurality of cardiac cycles, the recording of the 2D navigator image data record is achieved in a first time segment of a cardiac phase and, in a second cardiac cycle of the plurality of cardiac cycles, the recording of the 2D navigator image data record is achieved in a second time segment of the same cardiac phase, wherein the first time segment is different from the second time segment, wherein the continuous recording includes a recording of a plurality of 3D image data records in the other time segments of the cardiac cycle, wherein as part of the recording of said image data records a raw data space in a Cartesian recording model is filled with MR signals in such a way that a spatial resolution is achieved in all three spatial directions of the examination volume, - determining the respiratory movement on the basis of the navigator image data records which were recorded in the plurality of cardiac cycles, - correcting the determined respiratory movement in the recorded MR signals in order to produce the respiration-corrected MR images.