Patent ID: 8410778

Claim:
A magnetic resonance method for acquiring a first image data set and a second image data set from an examination subject, comprising the steps of: placing an examination subject in a magnetic resonance data acquisition unit and, from said magnetic resonance data acquisition unit, radiating a plurality of excitation pulses into the examination subject; operating said magnetic resonance data acquisition unit to generate, after each excitation pulse, a first echo signal after a first echo time TE 1 and a second echo signal after a second echo time TE 2 , with TE 2 being longer than TE 1 ; detecting said first echo signal and entering said first echo signal in a first raw magnetic resonance data set, and detecting said second echo signal and entering said second echo signal in a second raw magnetic resonance data set that is separate from said first raw magnetic resonance data set; in a processor, acquiring a first image data set that is separate from said first image data set, from the first raw magnetic resonance data set based on magnitude information contained in the first raw magnetic resonance data set; in said processor, acquiring a second image data set from the second raw magnetic resonance data set based on phase information contained in the second raw magnetic resonance data set; and storing said first and second image data sets in at least one memory device in a form allowing access to said first and second image data sets.