Patent Document ID: 9778338
Application ID: 13782672
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for producing a plurality of images of a subject with a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system, the steps of the method comprising: a) applying, with the MRI system, a radio frequency (RF) excitation field to a portion of a subject that includes a plurality of slice locations, the plurality of slice locations including a current slice location and at least one adjacent slice location; b) sequentially producing a plurality of magnetic field gradient blips to impart a phase shift to echo signals responsive to the RF excitation field such that image data corresponding to the at least one adjacent slice location is shifted by a selected percentage of a field-of-view (FOV) of the current slice location, wherein successive ones of the plurality of magnetic field gradient blips act to mitigate phase accrued by previous ones of the plurality of magnetic field gradient blips; c) acquiring, with an RF receiver coil, image data indicative of the echo signals; and d) reconstructing a plurality of images of the subject from the acquired image data, each of the plurality of images depicting the subject at a corresponding one of the plurality of slice locations.