Patent ID: 8824766

Claim:
A method of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), the method comprising: receiving a plurality of MRI data signals representative of a region including a volume of interest (VOI); determining at least one subvolume within the VOI; generating a ratio pair (RP) cluster, wherein the RP cluster corresponds to the at least one sub volume; forming an RP cloud characterized according to a short axis length of the RP cluster by; determining an average distance between a center of the RP cloud to each RP along fat-only/water-only (F/W) and log in-phase/opposed-phase (I/O) axes; constructing a long axis vector for an ellipse from average distance vectors; determining a short axis vector perpendicular to the long axis vector; determining an average distance from the center of the RP cloud to each RP along the short axis vector; and selecting the clusters including a short axis length meeting a predetermined criterion; generating a chemical shift image of the at least one subvolume based on the RP cloud; and presenting the chemical shift image to a user.