Patent ID: 7002344

Claim:
A method for magnetic resonance imaging of a contiguous region of a subject, comprising: applying a partially parallel acquisition (PPA) via modulation of spin magnetization using radio-frequency pulses as well as using spatial coding of the subject region and using subsequent measurement in cycles of radio-frequency response signals showing excited spins; measuring the radio-frequency response signals by a coil array comprising two or more radio-frequency receiver coils via which both coil sensitivity information and the radio-frequency response signals are acquired; acquiring, by each radio-frequency receiver coil, a reduced data set for implementation of image reconstruction; utilizing additional modulations of spin magnetization, the additional modulations being comprised of modulations of at least one of radio-frequency pulses or additional modulation of gradients used for spatial coding of the subject regions; and modifying the coil sensitivity information according to the respective preceding additional modulations of the spin magnetization.