Patent ID: 7692425

Claim:
A parallel magnetic resonance (MR) apparatus comprising: a plurality of receiver coils, each receiver coil configured to acquire a k-space data set; and a control processor programmed to: receive a set of k-space calibration data lines from each of the plurality of receiver coils; determine a set of kernel weights from the calibration data lines in k-space; transform, in one dimension, the set of kernel weights to hybrid space to form hybrid space kernel weights; transform, in one dimension, each k-space data set to form a plurality of hybrid space data sets; apply the hybrid space kernel weights to the plurality hybrid space data sets to synthesize MR data for each receiver coil; for each receiver coil, combine the synthesized MR data with the acquired k-space data set for the receiver coil; and reconstruct an image for each receiver coil based on the combination of the synthesized MR data and the acquired k-space data set for the receiver coil.