Patent ID: 6870367

Claim:
A method for angiographic MRI scanning of a body of a patient lying on a table, using a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus having a basic field magnet that generates a basic magnetic field in a homogeneity volume, said method comprising the steps of: (a) exciting a slice of said body in a block-shaped volume of the body by excitation with an RF pulse and simultaneous application of a slice-selection gradient switched in a longitudinal direction of the body so that, at a beginning of the excitation, the block-shaped volume is disposed at an edge of said homogeneity volume and with a width of the block-shaped volume in said slice selection direction being smaller than a maximum possible field of view of the excitation; (b) spatially coding said block-shaped volume by applying a phase-coding gradient in said slice selection direction and applying a frequency-coding gradient in a plane that is vertical relative to the direction of the phase-coding gradient; (c) uniformly and continuously moving said body by uniformly and continuously moving said table, to move the block-shaped volume uniformly through said homogeneity volume; and (d) simultaneously uniformly shifting said phase-coding gradient and said frequency-coding gradient in conformity with moving the table so that said block-shaped volume exhibits no motion relative to said table and no motion relative to said patient, until said block-shaped volume is disposed at an opposite edge of said homogeneity volume.