Patent ID: 8664954

Claim:
Method of magnetic resonance imaging of an object, comprising the steps of: arranging the object in a stationary magnetic field, subjecting the object to an excitation and encoding sequence of magnetic field gradients resulting in k-space sampling in two segments along the phase encoding direction, wherein the encoding sequence of the magnetic field gradients is selected such that the two segments in k-space are sampled along trajectories beginning with a central k-space line through a k-space center and continuing to opposite k-space borders of the two segments and wherein one central k-space line is sampled in both of the two k-space segments, collecting magnetic resonance signals created in the object, and reconstructing an image of the object based on the magnetic resonance signals, wherein at least one of intersegment phase deviations and intersegment intensity deviations are corrected in both k-space segments using the magnetic resonance signals collected along the central k-space line.