Patent Document ID: 20110084693
Application ID: 12972192
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for reconstructing an actual image from sensitivity encoded magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data capable of being represented in a frequency domain, the frequency domain comprising at least a phase-encoding direction and a frequency-encoding direction, the phase-encoding and frequency-encoding directions corresponding to a first spatial dimension and a second spatial dimension, respectively, the method comprising: acquiring a reduced MRI data set, wherein the reduced MRI data set is undersampled in at least the phase-encoding direction; determining reconstruction coefficients, wherein the reconstruction coefficients are spatially varying in at least the second spatial dimension which corresponds to the frequency-encoding direction; determining a reconstructed MRI data set by combining the reconstruction coefficients and the reduced MRI data set; determining a complete MRI data set by combining the reduced MRI data set and the reconstructed MRI data set; and outputting at least a portion of the complete MRI data set to an output device configured for display or a computer readable medium.