Patent ID: 8373414

Claim:
A magnetic resonance method for spatially resolved detection and display of movement processes in an examination subject, comprising the steps of: placing an examination subject in a magnetic resonance data acquisition unit and, with said data acquisition unit, imposing a magnetization pattern on at least a portion of a fluid medium, comprising intestinal contents subject to intestinal peristalsis, located in the intestine of the examination subject by executing two magnetic resonance data acquisition sequences in said data acquisition unit that respectively produce individual magnetization patterns that are orthogonal to each other, said magnetization pattern being formed as a grid of said individual magnetization patterns, said grid comprising a plurality of node points; with the data acquisition unit, acquiring an acquired image data set from a region of the examination subject on which said magnetization pattern was imposed, selected from the group consisting of a complete image data set that images said region, and a portion of a complete image data set that images said region; supplying said acquired image data set to a processor and, in said processor, automatically analyzing said magnetization pattern to determine at least one item of movement information from said acquired image data set by analyzing a spatial arrangement of said magnetization pattern and by identifying a displacement between respective node points corresponding to each other in said acquired image data sets, and analyzing said displacement together with said spatial arrangement to determine said item of movement information; and from said processor visually presenting said at least one item of movement information in a humanly perceptible form.