Patent ID: 8554301

Claim:
A method for generating a magnetic resonance image of an imaging volume of a patient, comprising the steps of: operating a magnetic resonance data acquisition unit to localize an anatomical inflow structure that supplies blood to an imaging volume of a patient located in the data acquisition unit; for acquiring magnetic resonance diagnostic data from said imaging volume in an imaging sequence, formulating a protocol for said imaging sequence in a processor to designate a specific volume that includes said imaging volume and adapting said specific volume to said anatomical inflow structure to produce an adapted specific volume having a recess therein, by making a recess-producing, three-dimensional incision into said specific volume that removes at least a portion of said anatomical inflow structure from said specific volume; operating said magnetic resonance data acquisition unit to produce a modification of a magnetization of the adapted specific volume, said modification being selected from the group consisting of saturating the magnetization of the adapted specific volume and inverting the magnetization of the adapted specific volume; operating said magnetic resonance data acquisition unit to implement said imaging sequence according to said protocol to obtain diagnostic magnetic resonance data from said imaging volume during the modified magnetization of the adapted specific volume; and in an imaging computer, generating a magnetic resonance image of said imaging volume from said diagnostic magnetic resonance data.