Patent ID: 8503752

Claim:
A method for correcting image distortions occurring in diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance images obtained from an examination subject, comprising the steps of: operating a magnetic resonance data acquisition apparatus to acquire a reference image, without diffusion weighting, from an examination subject; operating said magnetic resonance data acquisition apparatus to acquire a first diffusion-weighted image from the examination subject, said first diffusion-weighted image being acquired for a first diffusion direction and with a first diffusion weighting and a first diffusion gradient polarity; operating said magnetic resonance data acquisition apparatus to acquire a second diffusion-weighted image from the subject for said first diffusion direction, and with at least one of a diffusion weighting that is different from said first diffusion weighting and a diffusion gradient polarity that is different from said first diffusion gradient polarity; and in a computerized processor, determining a first set of deskewing parameters that deskew said first diffusion-weighted image, and a second set of deskewing parameters that deskews said second diffusion-weighted image and are correlated with said first set of deskewing parameters, by simultaneously minimizing differences between the first diffusion-weighted image, deskewed with first set of deskewing parameters, and the reference image, and differences between the second diffusion-weighted image, deskewed with the second set of deskewing parameters, and the reference image.