Patent ID: 7288936

Claim:
In imaging a first species having a short T2 magnetic resonance parameter in the presence of a second and third species having longer T2 parameters, a method of suppressing signals from the longer T2 species comprising the steps of: a) applying a RF excitation pulse with multiple suppression bands for the second and third species to excite nuclei spins of the longer T2 species with the magnitude of the RF pulse being sufficiently low so as not to excite nuclei spins of the short T2 species, the RF excitation pulse being sufficiently long to rotate the longer T2 species nuclei spins into a transverse plane, b) dephasing the longer T2 species nuclei spins in the transverse plane, c) applying an imaging pulse sequence to image the short T2 species, and d) generating an image of the first species without the dephased longer T2 species nuclei spins in the transverse plane.