Patent ID: 7528601

Claim:
A magnetic resonance tomography imaging method comprising the steps of: acquiring respective data sets from magnetic resonance signals of at least two limited spatial regions of a subject, the spatial regions being shifted relative to each other along one spatial direction and respectively having edge regions that overlap each other with phase coding in a non-homogenous non-edge region along said spatial direction; for at least one of said spatial regions, automatically electronically determining a modulation function, limited to an entirety of said at least one of said spatial regions, that modulates the magnetic resonance signals from said at least one of said spatial regions; automatically electronically calculating foldovers in a region of overlapping of said spatial regions dependent on said modulation function; combining magnetic resonance tomography images of the respective non-edge regions of the spatial regions without foldovers in said spatial direction, using the calculated foldovers in the overlapping region to produce a substantially foldover-free image data set; and making said substantially foldover-free image data set available in a form suitable for reconstructing a substantially foldover-free image of the subject therefrom.