Patent ID: 7061240

Claim:
A magnetic resonance imaging method comprising application of a pulse sequence which includes one or more pulses the pulse sequence having an intrinsic scan time based on a full sampling rate in k-space for a predetermined full ‘field-of-view’ and a reference temporal pulse shape of the magnetic gradient pulses acquisition of a series of magnetic resonance signals by means of a receiver antennae system having a spatial sensitivity profile, wherein undersampled signal acquisition is applied to acquire undersampled magnetic resonance signals at a predetermined reduced sampling rate in k-space, the sampling rate being reduced by a reduction factor relative the full sampling rate the pulse sequence being applied during an actual signal scan time, the actual signal scan time being larger than the intrinsic signal scan time times the reduction factor, wherein the pulse sequence includes magnetic gradient pulses and the magnetic gradient pulses are applied with a slew rate that is less than the slew rate involved with the reference pulse shape.