Patent ID: 8030921

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising: an MRI scanner for obtaining images of a predetermined volume; a controller configured to control operation of the scanner to acquire images using a modified Dixon technique where data acquisition for the modified Dixon technique is performed over a readout lobe and one or more of, a dephase lobe, and a rephase lobe of a gradient echo pulse sequence performed by the scanner; where data acquired during one or more of the dephase and rephase lobes form a first Dixon MRI data set and data acquired during the readout lobe is used to form a second Dixon MRI data set; a processing system to process the first Dixon MRI data set and the second Dixon MRI data set using a Dixon reconstruction technique to create a first chemical species image data set and a second chemical species image data set, and an output device for displaying a first chemical species image and a second chemical species image, based, at least in part, on the first and second chemical species image data sets.