Patent Document ID: 20130281828
Application ID: 13866341
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for acquiring magnetic resonance data from a respirating subject, comprising: in a processor, subdividing a respiratory position of a respirating subject into a plurality of predetermined clusters, each cluster encompassing a predetermined respiratory range of said respiratory position; operating a magnetic resonance data acquisition unit to acquire magnetic resonance data from the respirating subject in a plurality of shots, with the magnetic resonance data of each shot filling a predetermined number of lines in k-space that is less than an entirety of all lines in k-space, and each shot exhibiting a three-dimensional k-space trajectory in k-space, with respectively different shots filling respectively different lines in k-space such that each shot fills a predetermined k-space region; in said processor, assigning a respective shot index to each of said shots that designates a sensitivity of the respective shot to movement by the subject, and assigning said shot indices to the respective shots with adjacent shot indices being assigned to respective shots, among said plurality of shots, that exhibit an incrementally different sensitivity to said movement; operating said magnetic resonance data acquisition unit to acquire the respective shots by (A) acquiring navigator data that indicate said respiratory position of the subject, (B) in said processor, selecting a specific cluster in the respective respiratory range in which said navigator data indicate the respiratory position and the respiratory phase occur, (C) from said processor, selecting a shot to be acquired that has a shot index assigned thereto that borders a shot index of a last-acquired shot for said specific cluster, and (D) acquiring said shot to be acquired and assigning said shot to the specific cluster; repeating (A), (B), (C) and (D) until at least two bordering clusters, that encompass adjacent respiratory regions of the subject, collectively are assigned to all of said shots in said measurement data set; and reconstructing an MR image from magnetic resonance data of said shots assigned to said two bordering clusters.