Patent Document ID: 20080317315
Application ID: 12143227
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for correcting movement artifacts in magnetic resonance images of an examination region of an examination subject, comprising the steps of: acquiring magnetic resonance raw data from an examination region of an examination subject in multiple slices comprising at least two groups of slices, including acquisition of raw data from at least one intervening slice in the second of said groups that is between respective successive slices of said first of said groups, with a time span between the acquisition of said raw data from said intervening slice and the acquisition of said raw data from the respective successive slices; identifying movement of the examination region that occurs in said time span by reconstructing a reference data set for said intervening slice from raw data of at least one slice in said first of said groups, and comparing said reference data set with said raw data of said intervening slice to obtain a comparison result that represents said movement; and reconstructing an image of said intervening slice from said raw data of said intervening slice and automatically correcting said image dependent on said movement represented by said comparison result to make said image substantially free of artifacts due to said movement.