Patent ID: 8112145

Claim:
A method for producing an image of a subject with an MRI system, the steps comprising: a) performing a pulse sequence a plurality of times with the MRI system, the pulse sequence including: i) a magnetization preparation RF pulse; ii) a data acquisition portion, which occurs during a time period following the magnetization preparation RF pulse, in which k-space data is acquired by acquiring a series of projections that samples different radial trajectories in k-space, wherein during each repetition of the pulse sequence, a different series of projections is acquired that samples different radial trajectories in k-space; b) retrospectively determining a delay time within the time period following the magnetization preparation RF pulse; c) forming a k-space data set from k-space sample trajectories acquired in step a) at the delay time determined in step b); and d) reconstructing the image from the k-space data set formed in step c).