Patent Document ID: 20130181710
Application ID: 13782672
Patent Status: 0

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; 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.