Patent ID: 7859262

Claim:
A method for magnetic resonance imaging of a contiguous region of a human body by partially parallel acquisition (PPA) by excitation of nuclear spins and measurement of radio-frequency signals representing the excited nuclear spins, comprising the steps of: automatically electronically calculating a k-space single channel reference image [R_kal] of a subject from previously measured reference lines of a sub-coil series of N sub-coils with a phase-sensitive combination method; automatically electronically calculating a GRAPPA coefficient matrix [W] by solving the equation system: [ R — kal]=[W]×[I — kal] wherein [I_kal] represents one block from the sub-coil series; successively completing a k-space single channel image [R] by applying [W] to successive blocks [I_z] shifted relative to one another, said blocks [I_z] being of a previously measured, under-sampled sub-coil series of the N sub-coils, and transforming [R] into image space as a resulting image of the subject.