Patent ID: 7057388

Claim:
Method for magnetic resonance imaging of at least a portion of a body placed in a stationary and substantially homogeneous main magnetic field, the method comprising the following steps: a) subjecting said portion to a diffusion-weighting sequence comprising an initial RF pulse and at least one diffusion gradient pulse; b) generating a train of MR echoes by subjecting said portion to an imaging sequence comprising read-out gradient pulses and phase-encoding gradient pulses; c) measuring said train of MR echoes; d) repeating steps a) to c) until a complete imaging data set with a sufficient number of phase-encoding steps is measured; e) correcting said imaging data set for macroscopic motions of said portion by means of an individual phase-correction of each train of MR echoes; f) reconstructing an image from said imaging data set; wherein the phase-encoding scheme of said imaging sequence is selected such that each train of MR echoes comprises at least one initial MR navigator echo, which forms an integral part of said imaging data set, wherein said phase-correction is derived from said MR navigator echo of the respective train of MR echoes.