Patent ID: 8497681

Claim:
A method to determine phase correction parameters for first data and second data acquired with a magnetic resonance data acquisition unit, said first data and said second data respectively representing different segments of a magnetic resonance exposure that exhibit respectively different background phase curves, said method comprising the steps of: operating said magnetic resonance data acquisition unit to acquire first phase correction data and second phase correction data, said first phase correction data having a first phase curve and said second phase correction data having a second phase curve that differs from said first phase curve; and supplying said first and second phase correction data sets to a computerized processor and, in said computerized processor, automatically determining phase correction parameters for a phase correction of at least one of said first data and said second data, said phase correction parameters defining a difference curve of a phase difference between said second phase curve and said first phase curve, depending on correlations between data in said second phase correction data set and data in said first phase correction data set.