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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 13, 2016
Siemens Healthcare Gmbh, Erlangen, DE;
Thomas Beck, Erlangen, DE;
Himanshu Bhat, Newton, MA (US);
Uvo Hoelscher, Erlangen, DE;
Mario Zeller, Erlangen, DE;
Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Erlangen, DE;
Abstract
In a method and apparatus for acquiring magnetic resonance (MR) data from a subject, wherein the MR data are acquired in respective data sets individually from multiple slices in a stack within the examination subject, and wherein the number of slices in the stack is not an integer multiple of a number of slices that are desired to be scanned simultaneously, a quotient of the number of slices in the stack and the number of slices to be acquired simultaneously is formed. A protocol for operating the scanner of the apparatus is then determined wherein the number of simultaneously scanned slices is set either by rounding by quotient up to the next highest integer, or rounding the quotient down to the next lowest integer.