Patent ID: 8183866

Claim:
A method for separation of fat images and water images according to the two-point Dixon method dependent on the T* 2 decay, comprising the steps of: (S 1 ): with a magnetic resonance data acquisition unit, acquiring three fat-water images from a patient in the unit, respectively corresponding to echoes at echo times TE 1 , TE 2 , TE 3 after an RF excitation pulse, wherein a first and a third of said fat-water images exhibit the same phase; (S 2 ): in a processor, calculating a T* 2 map from the two equiphase images; (S 3 ): in said processor, correcting the T* 2 influence in one of the two equiphase fat-water images and in the counter-phase fat-water image; and (S 4 ): in an image computer, reconstructing a pure T* 2 -corrected fat image and a pure T* 2 -corrected water image according to the two-point Dixon method using the T* 2 -corrected equiphase and counter-phase fat-water images from Step (S 3 ).