Patent ID: 8432166

Claim:
A magnetic resonance imaging system, comprising: (a) a balanced steady-state free-precession transient imaging device generating a series of echoes with for each of said echoes in said series of echoes generating a desired transverse magnetization profile M T and generating RF pulses whereby each of said RF pulses having a distinct RF flip angle for each of said echoes in said series of echoes; and (b) a computer coupled to said balanced steady-state free-precession transient imaging device, wherein said computer is calculating the RF flip angle for each of said echoes such that the nth echo in said series of echoes uses as input a preceding magnetization M(n−1) and the desired transverse magnetization M T (n) such that said desired transverse magnetization profile M T is achieved in said nth echo, wherein said balanced steady state-free precession transient imaging device is to apply said calculated RF flip angle in the generation of said nth echo.