Patent ID: 7330028

Claim:
A magnetic resonance (MR) apparatus comprising: a plurality of gradient coils positioned about a bore of a magnet to impress a polarizing magnetic field about a subject to be imaged, and an RF transceiver system and an RF switch controlled by a pulse module to transmit RF signals to an RF coil assembly to acquire MR images; and a computer readable storage medium having stored thereon a computer program comprising instructions which when executed by a computer cause the computer to: (A) cause application of a spatial saturation pulse to saturate unwanted spins; (B) cause application of an imaging segment to acquire one k-space line along a frequency encoding (kx) dimension after application of the spatial saturation pulse; (C) cause application of a magnetization transfer (MT) pulse to enhance contrast after application of the imaging segment; and (D) cause application of the imaging segment to acquire another k-space line along the frequency encoding (kx) dimension after application of the MT pulse.