Patent ID: 8183865

Claim:
A method for correcting movement artifacts in magnetic resonance images of an examination region of an examination subject, comprising the steps of: acquiring magnetic resonance raw data from an examination region of an examination subject in multiple slices respectively located in a successive physical progression in said examination region by acquiring said raw data from at least two groups of said slices in a chronological acquisition progression that does not coincide with said physical progression, including acquiring raw data from at least one intervening slice in a second of said groups that is physically between respective successive slices in said physical progression for which raw data are acquired in a first of said groups, with said raw data from said intervening slice being acquired after a time span that follows the acquisition of said raw data from each of the respective successive slices; identifying movement of the examination region that occurs in said time span by reconstructing a reference data set for said intervening slice from raw data of at least one slice in said first of said groups, and comparing said reference data set with said raw data of said intervening slice to obtain a comparison result that represents said movement; and reconstructing an image of said intervening slice from said raw data of said intervening slice and automatically correcting said image dependent on said movement represented by said comparison result to make said image substantially free of artifacts due to said movement.