Patent ID: 7576537

Claim:
A radio frequency (RF) pulse applying method in order to acquire magnetic resonance (MR) data, said method comprising: applying a leading pulse for reducing a vertical magnetization of a signal at at least one of a frequency Ω+ωo and a frequency Ω−ωo, the signal having components at the frequencies Ω+ωo and Ω−ωo separated from each other by a frequency ωo, wherein Ω is a magnetic resonance frequency of a component intended for measurement and ωo is a repetition time TR when the magnetic resonance frequency of the component intended for measurement is Ω; applying a pulse sequence of Balanced steady-state free precession (SSFP) after the leading pulse has been applied in order to reduce the vertical magnetization of the signal; acquiring the MR data after applying the leading pulse; and outputting an MR image using the MR data.