Patent ID: 7319324

Claim:
A method for magnetic resonance imaging comprising the steps of: using a magnetic resonance imaging scanner having a plurality of component RF coils, acquiring, with each of said coils, n partial k-space data sets in temporal succession by generating an i-th partial data set (i=1 through n) by a first-time acquisition of an i-th sub-unit of k-space and subsequent omission of n−1 sub-units of k-space, a totality of said n partial k-space data sets acquired by each coil forming a complete k-space data set for a sub-region, associated with that coil, of an examination region; for each component RF coil, determining a coil sensitivity based at least on a portion of said complete k-space data set; transforming each partial k-space data set using a PPA reconstruction technique and the respective coil sensitivities for said RF component coils, thereby obtaining a plurality of transformed partial k-space data sets; superimposing said plurality of transformed partial k-space data sets to obtain a low-artifact image data set of said examination region; making said low-artifact image data set available in a form allowing reconstruction of an image of said examination region therefrom.