Patent Document ID: 9746539
Application ID: 14367464
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method of MR imaging of a body placed in the examination volume of a MR device, the method comprising the steps of: a) generating at least two gradient echo signals at two different echo times by subjecting a portion of the body to an imaging sequence of RF pulses and switched magnetic field gradients, wherein the 0 th moment of the readout magnetic field gradient essentially vanishes at the time of the first gradient echo, the 1 st moment of the readout gradient being non-zero at the time of the first gradient echo, while both the 0 th and 1 st moments of the readout magnetic field gradient essentially vanish at the time of the second gradient echo; b) acquiring the gradient echo signals; c) repeating steps a) and b) for a plurality of phase encoding steps; d) reconstructing a first MR image from the gradient echo signals of the first gradient echo and a second MR image from the gradient echo signals of the second gradient echo; and e) identifying ghosting artefacts in the first and/or second MR image by comparing the first and second MR images.