Patent ID: 8738113

Claim:
A magnetic resonance imaging system comprising: a transducer configured to generate raw turbo spin echo (TSE) magnetic resonance image data comprising a plurality of echo data acquisitions in response to an individual single RF excitation pulse; a monitoring device configured to generate motion data corresponding to periodic motion within a subject being imaged; and a processing device configured to receive the raw TSE image data and said motion data from said monitoring device, said processing device further configured to separate said raw TSE image data received across multiple periods of said periodic motion into respective bins comprising undersampled image representative data related to time divisions of a reference period of said periodic motion and to assign raw TSE image data of individual echo data acquisitions of said plurality of echo data acquisitions to said respective bins based on relative time of acquisition within a cardiac cycle, said processing device further configured to reconstruct the separated image data in accordance with said time divisions using said motion data to exclude raw TSE image data uncorrelated with a heart rate of said subject from use in the reconstruction.