Patent ID: 7492153

Claim:
An MRI apparatus comprising: a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system having a plurality of gradient coils positioned about a bore of a magnet; an RF transceiver system to acquire MR data from an RF coil assembly, the RF coil assembly comprising: a plurality of RF source coils; and an RF target coil separate from the plurality of RF source coils; and a computer programmed to: acquire MR data of an imaging object from each of the plurality of RF source coils, wherein at least a portion of the MR data is accelerated MR data; acquire MR data of the imaging object from the RF target coil; calculate a set of weights based on a relationship between MR data acquired from each RF source coil and MR data acquired from the RF target coil; and calculate a full field-of-view MR data set for the RF target coil based on an application of the set of weights to at least a portion of the MR data acquired from at least one of the plurality of RF source coils, wherein at least one dimension of the full field-of-view MR data set is in the frequency domain; and reconstruct an image based on the calculated full field-of-view MR data set.