Patent ID: 8150491

Claim:
A method for time-resolved imaging of N-dimensional magnetic resonance, wherein N is a total number of dimensions and includes all spatial and temporal dimensions, the method comprising the steps of: a) acquiring MR signals from a sample volume by parallel imaging using multiple receiver coils, wherein a plurality of data matrices in k-space is acquired undersampled with a reduction factor R from each receiver coil, wherein ky is a phase-encoding direction, acquisition of the MR signals being performed according to an acquisition scheme that is periodic over time and which describes a time sequence of the undersampled data matrices; and b) reconstructing missing data points of the acquisition scheme using a set of coil weighting factors and using N-dimensional reconstruction kernels that define from which acquired data points reconstruction will be performed, wherein reconstruction of the missing data points of the acquisition scheme is performed using a single N-dimensional reconstruction kernel geometry comprising an N-dimensional target area, wherein all non-acquired data points are reconstructed within an associated target area and an extent of a reconstruction kernel in a kx direction is independent.