Patent Document ID: 4881033
Application ID: 07331750
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method of magnetic resonance imaging comprising: after each excitation of magnetic resonance, causing a plurality of magnetic resonance echoes, early echoes close in time to the excitation having better resolution of details of structure in the image region and poorer T2 contrast and late echoes further in time from the excitation having poorer structural detail resolution and better T2 contrast; collecting magnetic resonance signals during the early and late echoes to collect early echo data and late echo data; combining a fractional portion of the early echo data with a fractional portion of the late echo data which is complementary to the early echo data portion to produce a synthesized data set; and, Fourier transforming the synthesized data set to produce a synthetic image which has characteristics of an early echo image and characteristics of a late echo image.