Patent ID: 7511489

Claim:
A method for magnetic resonance imaging comprising the steps of: exciting nuclear spins in an examination subject by irradiating the examination subject with radio-frequency energy from multiple coils among a plurality of component coils, each of said coils having a coil geometry that defines a coil sensitivity for that coil; with said multiple coils for each of at least two two-dimensional slices of the examination subject, acquiring magnetic resonance signals resulting from said irradiation with said RF energy, and entering the received magnetic resonance signals as data in k-space, the data in k-space for each of said slices forming a partial data set with a sum of the respective partial data sets of said at least two two-dimensional slices forming a complete data set in k-space, said at least two two-dimensional slices being displaced in a direction of a slice-selection gradient defining a direction normal to said at least two two-dimensional slices; automatically electronically calculating the individual coil sensitivities of the respective multiple component coils exclusively from said complete data set; completing at least one partial data set of each of said at least two two-dimensional slices using a PPA reconstruction technique and the calculated individual coil sensitivities, thereby obtaining a plurality of completed slices in k-space; and mathematically transforming the plurality of completed slices in k-space into respective whole images in the image domain.