Patent ID: 8022699

Claim:
A method for acquiring a magnetic resonance image of tissue containing iron oxide particles, comprising the steps of: exposing an examination subject having tissue therein containing iron oxide particles, and said tissue having a water portion and a fat portion, to a magnetic resonance imaging pulse sequence and, in said pulse sequence, producing a frequency-selective inversion of longitudinal magnetization of said tissue before reading out magnetic resonance signals emitted by said tissue, and reading out said magnetic resonance signals at a zero crossing of the longitudinal magnetization; in said pulse sequence, radiating multiple inversion pulses into said tissue that invert the longitudinal magnetization of said water portion, and radiating multiple inversion pulses into the tissue that invert the longitudinal magnetization of fat portions of said tissue; in said pulse sequence, interleaving said multiple inversion pulses that invert the longitudinal magnetization of the water portion with the multiple inversion pulses that invert the longitudinal magnetization of the fat portion with respective, successive inversion pulses of the interleaved multiple inversion pulses having a fixed time interval therebetween; and storing the magnetic resonance signals that are read out from said tissue as raw data in a data file, in a form allowing subsequent reconstruction therefrom of a magnetic resonance image of the tissue.