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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 30, 2015
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Alto Stemmer, Erlangen, DE;
Cong Zhao, Shenzhen, CN;
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
In a method and apparatus for acquiring magnetic resonance (MR) data from a subject, excitation pulses and at least two refocusing pulses are applied to the subject in an MR scanner, and the MR scanner is operated to activate gradients in a readout direction that cause at least two gradient echoes to be formed between the at least two successive refocusing pulses, with a temporal distance between the at least two gradient echoes that produces a predetermined phase shift between a signal acquired from a first nuclei in the subject and a signal acquired from a second nuclei in the subject at times of the respective gradient echoes, and that include readout gradients associated respectively with a first and a last gradient echo, among said at least two gradient echoes, the readout gradients being asymmetrical.