Patent ID: 7847551

Claim:
A method for exciting nuclear spins in an examination subject for acquiring magnetic resonance signals from a region of the examination subject, comprising the steps of: placing an examination subject in a static, homogenous, basic magnetic field; irradiating the subject in the basic magnetic field with an adiabatic half-passage (AHP) pulse to generate transverse magnetization in the examination subject; irradiating the examination subject in the basic magnetic field with at least a first adiabatic full-passage (AFP) pulse and a second AFP pulse to generate slice-selective re-phasing of the transverse magnetization; setting a time interval between said AHP pulse and said first adiabatic AFP pulse to be at least 37 ms, and setting a time interval between said first AFP pulse and said second AFP pulse to be at least 75 ms, the irradiation of the examination subject with said AHP pulse and said at least first and second AFP pulses causing excitation of nuclear spins in a region of the examination subject that result in generation of magnetic resonance signals; and detecting said magnetic resonance signals and entering the detected magnetic resonance signals in an electronic raw data file in a form allowing generation of a magnetic resonance image of the region of the examination subject therefrom.