Patent Document ID: 20100079141
Application ID: 12555121
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for correcting image distortions that occur in a magnetic resonance image due to acquisition of magnetic resonance data for generating the magnetic resonance image at different positions within a magnetic resonance data acquisition unit, said method comprising the steps of: continuously moving a patient on a patient table through a magnetic resonance data acquisition unit and, with said magnetic resonance data acquisition unit, acquiring raw magnetic resonance data from the patient in multiple segments in k-space using a radial filling trajectory; in a processor, automatically determining a non-punctiform intersection region in a center of k-space simultaneously covered by said multiple segments; in said processor, calculating said distortion dependent on the intersection region of at least two different segments among said multiple segments; and reconstructing a magnetic resonance image based on said raw magnetic resonance data and correcting the calculated distortion in the reconstructed magnetic resonance image.