Patent Document ID: 20030069495
Application ID: 10236691
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for magnetic resonance imaging comprising the steps of: (a) exciting nuclear spins in an interconnected region of a subject, and thereby causing radio frequency response signals to be emitted from said region; (b) receiving said radio frequency response signals simultaneously with each of a plurality of component coils, each of said component coils having a characteristic sensitivity over said region defined for at least one spin excitation, and thereby obtaining a plurality of received radio frequency response signals; (c) forming a plurality of different signal combinations from said plurality of received radio frequency response signals depended on combinations of the respective characteristic sensitivities of said component coils; (d) forming an ordered dataset from said signal combinations of at least one spin excitation; and (e) spatially transforming said ordered dataset to generate a magnetic resonance image of said region.