Patent ID: 8143889

Claim:
A method of acquiring both magnetic resonance spin echo planar image (SEPI) data and stimulated echo planar image (STEPI) data, in response to a single radio frequency (RF) excitation pulse sequence, the method comprising the activities of: exciting, with a first radio frequency (RF) pulse, nuclei to produce an initial transverse magnetization in a region of a patient; splitting, with a second RF pulse, the initial transverse magnetization into a first magnetization component and a second magnetization component, said first magnetization component and said second magnetization component comprising quadrature components; acquiring, with an RF detector, spin echo planar image (SEPI) data of an image slice of said region using the first magnetization component; and acquiring, with said RF detector, stimulated echo planar image (STEPI) data of said image slice of said region using the second magnetization component.