Patent Document ID: 20070103156
Application ID: 10560872
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A magnetic resonance imaging system including: a means for encoding magnetic resonance in at least a readout direction, the encoding including applying a read magnetic field gradient profile; a plurality of receive coils for receiving magnetic resonance signals; a sampling means for sampling the receive coils during application of the read magnetic field gradient profile to acquire samples from each receive coil at a measurement sampling rate; a means for reconstructing the magnetic resonance samples acquired from each coil into a corresponding intermediate reconstructed image, the intermediate reconstructed images having a measurement field of view and a measurement spatial resolution in the readout direction; and a means for combining the intermediate reconstructed images based on coil sensitivity factors to produce a final reconstructed image having a final field of view and a final spatial resolution in the readout direction, wherein at least one of the final field of view and the final spatial resolution is increased over a corresponding one of the measurement field of view and the measurement spatial resolution in the readout direction.