Patent ID: 7103490

Claim:
A method for post-processing raw magnetic resonance data, comprising: filtering the raw magnetic resonance data; Fourier transforming the filtered data; forming a first magnetic resonance signal from an absolute value of the Fourier transformed filtered data results; Fourier transforming the raw magnetic resonance data; forming a second magnetic resonance signal from an absolute value of the Fourier transformed raw magnetic resonance data; and forming a post-processed magnetic resonance signal from a weighted combination of the first and second magnetic resonance signals; wherein the two magnetic resonance signals are weighted such that the contribution of one of the magnetic resonance signals to the weighted combination is formed by multiplying this magnetic resonance signal by a weighting factor, with the weighting factor depending on the other of the magnetic resonance signals such that it is relatively greater when an absolute value of this magnetic resonance signal is large and relatively less when the absolute value is small.