Patent ID: 8436610

Claim:
A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system configured for adaptively processing MR image data in order to accommodate variation in perfusion time of a vessel fluid, comprising: an MR image data acquisition device that in response to blood proton spin tagging, initiates acquisition of, a first image set comprising a plurality of different individual blood proton spin tagged images having a set of corresponding different physical slice locations through a patient anatomical volume and being acquired at a corresponding first set of times and in a first order with respect to a time of blood tagging of a patient and a second image set comprising a plurality of different individual blood proton spin tagged images having said set of corresponding different physical slice locations through said patient anatomical volume and being acquired at substantially said corresponding first set of times and in a second order, different to said first order, with respect to said time of blood tagging of said patient; and at least one computer configured for, combining and averaging blood proton spin tagged image data representing the same corresponding image slice in both the first and second image sets and acquired at different times following said time of blood tagging of said patient and with different degree of blood tagging perfusion and sending the combined and averaged image data representing the same corresponding image slice to a destination from which the combined and averaged image data is accessible as an MRI image.