Patent ID: 8374675

Claim:
A method to generate a magnetic resonance angiography image of an examination region of a subject, comprising the steps of: operating a magnetic resonance data acquisition unit in which an examination subject is located according to an imaging sequence with reduced flow sensitivity to acquire a first magnetic resonance dataset from an examination region of the subject in which vessels in the examination region are shown with high signal intensity; operating said magnetic resonance data acquisition unit according to an imaging sequence with a flow sensitivity that is increased compared to the reduced flow sensitivity with which the first magnetic resonance data set was acquired, to obtain a second set of magnetic resonance data from the examination region in which the vessels in the examination region are shown with a low signal intensity; synchronizing acquisition of each of said first and second magnetic resonance data sets with a cardiac cycle of the examination subject; acquiring all of said first magnetic resonance data set during a diastole of said cardiac cycle, in which blood flow in the vessels in the examination region is slow, and acquiring all of said second magnetic resonance data set during systole of said cardiac cycle, in which blood flow in the vessels in the examination region is faster compared to blood flow during acquisition of said first magnetic resonance data set; and in a processor, reconstructing an angiographic magnetic resonance image of the examination region by mathematically combining said first and second magnetic resonance data sets.