Patent Document ID: 20140368195
Application ID: 14367464
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. Method of MR imaging of a body placed in the examination volume of a MR device, the method comprising the steps of: a) generating at least two gradient echo signals at two different echo times by subjecting the portion of the body to an imaging sequence of RF pulses and switched magnetic field gradients, wherein the 0 th moment of the readout magnetic field gradient essentially vanishes at the time of the first gradient echo, the 1 st moment of the readout gradient being non-zero at the time of the first gradient echo, while both the 0 th and 1 st moments of the readout magnetic field gradient essentially vanish at the time of the second gradient echo; b) acquiring the gradient echo signals; c) repeating steps a) and b) for a plurality of phase encoding steps; d) reconstructing a first MR image from the gradient echo signals of the first gradient echo and a second MR image from the gradient echo signals of the second gradient echo; and e) identifying ghosting artefacts in the first and/or second MR image by comparing the first and second MR images.