Patent ID: 7330027

Claim:
A magnetic resonance imaging method to produce successive magnetic resonance images of a region of a subject comprising the steps of: exposing the body of a subject to a uniform magnetic field, obtaining a series of successive magnetic resonance signals of the region of the subject by steady-state free precession imaging, acquiring successive sets of the magnetic resonance signals in the series by successively scanning respective sets of points in k-space in an undersampled fashion such that the ensemble of successive sets cover the entire portion of k-space at full sampling density, the step of acquiring including employing an eddy-current reduction technique, obtaining successive updates of a training set of magnetic resonance signals from the magnetic resonance signals by further acquisition of a central portion of k-space at full sampling density, updating the undersampled sets of magnetic resonance signals using further undersampled scans of the entire k-space, reconstructing a baseline image from the training data, identifying a distribution of a likelihood of changes in the successive magnetic resonance images from the training data, in the space spanned by geometrical space, reconstructing successive magnetic resonance images from the respective sets of undersampled magnetic resonance signals on the basis of the identified distribution of likelihood of changes, and wherein the step of acquiring including acquiring the magnetic resonance signals by way of a receiver antennae system having a spatial sensitivity profile, and the step of reconstructing further including reconstructing the successive magnetic resonance images from the respective sets of undersampled magnetic resonance signals based in part on the sensitivity profile of the receiver antennae.