Patent Document ID: 20160146917
Application ID: 14554916
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A magnetic resonance imaging method comprising: selecting a first set of RF pulses; applying the first set of RF pulses to a portion of an object; generating a first image in response to signal data obtained from the first set of RF pulses; selecting a second set of RF pulses, wherein at least one pulse of the second set of RF pulses has a different gradient than one of the pulses of the first set of RF pulses; applying the second set of RF pulses to the same portion of the object as the first set of RF pulses; generating a second image in response to signal data obtained from the second set of RF pulses; comparing the first image and the second image to determine whether there is a distorted region present in the first image or the second image, each of the first image and the second image having a total field of view that is a distance of the image along an axis; assigning an affected field of view to a width of the distorted region along an axis of one or both of the first image and the second image; determining an acceleration factor by dividing a total field of view of one or both of the first image and the second image by the affected field of view; acquiring sampled image data according to the acceleration factor of one or both of the first image and the second image; generating a third image from the acquired sampled image data and applying a mask to the third image in the affected field of view; and displaying the third image.