Patent ID: 7880465

Claim:
An MRI apparatus comprising: a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system having a plurality of gradient coils positioned about a bore of a magnet, and an RF transceiver system and an RF switch controlled by a pulse module to transmit RF signals to an RF coil assembly to acquire MR images; and a computer coupled to the MRI system and programmed to: determine a first view-ordering sequence comprising values corresponding to respective views of a first k-space data set, wherein a value corresponding to a central view of the first k-space data set is positioned such that acquisition of k-space data in the central view is acquired from a first anatomical region as a contrast agent passes therethrough; determine a second view-ordering sequence comprising values corresponding to respective views of a second k-space data set, wherein a value corresponding to a central view of the second k-space data set is positioned such that acquisition of k-space data in the central view is acquired from a second anatomical region as a contrast agent passes therethrough, and wherein a position of the value corresponding to the central view of the first k-space data set within the first view-ordering sequence is different than a position of the value corresponding to the central view of the second k-space data set within the second view-ordering sequence; acquire magnetic resonance (MR) data according to the first view-ordering sequence over a series of cardiac cycles to fill data in the first k-space data set; and acquire MR data according to the second view-ordering sequence over the series of cardiac cycles to fill data in the second k-space data set.