Patent ID: 8878533

Claim:
A method to generate an image data set of an image area located in a measurement volume of a magnetic resonance system, said magnetic resonance system comprising a gradient system and an RF transmission/reception system, said method comprising: reading out k-space corresponding to the imaging area, by: (a) activating at least two phase coding gradients in respective spatial directions with said gradient system, (b) after the activated phase coding gradients achieve a full strength, radiating a non-slice-selective RF excitation pulse with said RF transmission/reception system, (c) after a time t 1 following the radiated excitation pulse, acquiring echo signals with said RF transmission/reception system and storing said echo signals as raw data points in k-space along a radial k-space trajectory that is predetermined by the strength of the phase coding gradients, (d) repeating (a) through (c) with respectively different phase coding gradients in each repetition until k-space corresponding to the image area is read out in a first region of k-space along radial k-space trajectories, depending on said time t 1 , and (e) reading out a remainder of k-space that corresponds to the imaging area, said remainder not being filled by said first region and including at least a center of k-space, in a read out procedure that is different from (a) through (d), and storing all data points read out in (d) and (e); and reconstructing image data from the read out data points in k-space by implementing a reconstruction algorithm in a computerized processor, said reconstruction algorithm comprising a Fourier transformation of said data points.